Victory in Christ

Reflections

Death is swallowed up in victory….thanks be to God, which gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Cor 15:54-57)

Victory is not handed to us merely BECAUSE of Christ – as a THING. Rather, all victory is IN the Person of Jesus Christ. In short, God doesn’t give us a victory – He gives us Christ – whose very presence in us is the victory.
The only real victory in all of God’s creation is that of the resurrection life of Jesus Christ. And the victory of that life is total. The good news is that if I am a believer, Jesus Christ dwells in me. His resurrection life is my life.

It is a fact that when we are saved, we are fully in His victory. But how do we come to live in it? Well, if His life is victory, then He must become our life, or to put it another way, we must, by faith live FROM OUT OF Christ as our life. We must lose our lives in order to find HIM as our life – and if we do, we are finding that victorious resurrection life.

Victory is a not a matter of finding the right, “how to,” or the right religious principles. It is a matter of faith – losing ourselves in order to find Christ as our life.