Faith Is the Victory

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 29, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 13.

Faith Is the Victory

"This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith." 1 John 5:4. Our faith is the victory. And he who has faith has victory. He does not have a partial victory, but he has "the victory that overcometh the world." That takes in everything against which we have to contend. And note that faith is the victory that overcometh. The overcoming is in the present tense. It is not a victory that has overcome the world or that at some future time will overcome the world, but that which overcometh the world now, right this day. We can not overcome the world in the past, for the past is gone forever. Neither can we overcome in the future, for the future is always ahead of us. To-morrow is always a day in advance.

That which we call to-morrow when it arrives is no longer to-morrow but to-day. "Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation." Put off your salvation and victory over sin until to-morrow and you will never be an overcomer. Attend to this work to-day and you are all right. Many professors lead a lame Christian life all the time because they do not get the decided victory over sin to-day. They are always going to lay aside this besetment and that bad habit, but they keep saying they will do it sometime in the to-morrows. But the to-morrows never come, and Satan is thus allowed to cheat them out of the blessed victories that God has for us to-day.