Faith is Victory

For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world- our faith.
-1 John 5.4

My faith is a victory?
I never thought of it like that, but it is true.

We overcome the world with our faith because nothing and no one can take our faith away. We hope for things not seen. Our faith hold us in that hope, knowing without seeing today that all of God's promises are true and everything in Scripture is true.

We live in a country and a time where we have a lot of freedoms, but so many people around the world do not. They have to hide their beliefs, but these verses remind me that even those Christian brothers & sisters who are persecuted still have victory because no government can take their faith. They may take their home, job, liberties, and well-being, but not their faith.

In China, Christianity is growing, even though they mostly have to meet secretly in homes and hide the fact that they are Christians. How can they have such faith in those circumstances?
Oh, me of little faith!
Oh, they of BIG faith!

Today, we "see" Christ's glory by faith in the words of Scripture.
-Tony Reinke