"Now thanks be unto God who always leads us forth to triumph with the Anointed One, and who diffuses by us the fragrance of the knowledge of Him in every place." 2 Cor. 2:14. (Literal translation.)
When you are forgotten or neglected, or purposely set at naught, and you smile inwardly, glorying in the insult or the oversight, because thereby counted worthy to suffer with Christ—that is victory.
When your good is evil spoken of, when your wishes are crossed, your taste offended, your advice disregarded, your opinions ridiculed, and you take it all in patient, loving silence—that is victory.
When you are content with any food, any raiment, any climate, any society, any solitude, any interruption by the will of God—that is victory.
When you can lovingly and patiently bear with any disorder, any irregularity, any unpunctuality, or any annoyance—that is victory.
When you never care to refer to yourself in conversation, or to record your own good works, or to itch after commendation; when you can truly love to be unknown—that is victory.
When death and life are both alike to you through Christ, and to do His perfect will you delight not more in one than in the other —that is victory; for, through Him you may be able to say, "Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death." Phil. 1:20; 1 Cor. 15:54.
When you can "most gladly take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake"—that is victory.
"In all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us." Rom. 8:37.—Anon.