Focus On God’s Goodness-Victory

JOHN SHIRK – Today’s Focus on God’s Goodness is found in First John 5, verses 4 and 5.

“Everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world? Only the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.”

Victory is ours through faith in Jesus Christ. He conquered the grave so that we might overcome the world. The system of the world tries to lure us into the trappings of pride, greed, and lust. But the power of God is at work in the lives of believers to reject that way of life and to embrace God’s purposes for our lives.

Those purposes include the way of love for God and love for people. Those purposes include worship for God, and encouragement for people.

Those purposes include trusting God and living out our faith with integrity. With our eyes fixed on Jesus, we live with a faith that endures through time and overcomes the world.

Victory in Jesus reveals the goodness of God and is a reason to give thanks in the Year of Gratitude.

John Shirk

john@wjtl.com