He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son (Rev. 21:7).
Continual victory is the privilege of God's children. Let us remember the words of the apostle Paul: "Thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ" (2 Cor. 2:14). This is not an up-and-down experience, but a day-by-day victory and triumph.
Our Savior "knew that the life of His trusting disciples would be like His, a series of uninterrupted victories, not seen to be such here, but recognized as such in the great hereafter" (The Desire of Ages, p. 679).
What will overcomers inherit? "All things." Some of the things to be inherited are mentioned in this same twenty-first chapter of Revelation: free access to the water of life; complete separation from unbelief, from the unclean, from deception, from idolatry, from falsehood, from crime and murder; the gift of a painless world, a sorrowless world, a deathless world, a tearless world.
The reward is great because the victory is great. Victories that are worth having are the result of hard battles. After the decisive victory on Lake Erie in the War of 1812, Commodore Perry announced the result to General Harrison in these words: "We have met the enemy, and they are ours." So Christ could have said; and soon all of His followers will be able to say the same.
Notice, the overcomer does not earn all things; he inherits all things. The servant earns; the son inherits. "Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God" (1 John 3:1). Through faith we are born again, become the sons and daughters of God, and inherit all things by right of birth.
Can we all be overcomers? Yes. How? By the blood of the Lamb and by the word of our testimony (Rev. 12:11). If we reign with Christ there, we must stand up for Him here.
MEDITATION PRAYER: "Thou God of my salvation:...my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness" (Ps.51:14).
Continual victory is the privilege of God's children. Let us remember the words of the apostle Paul: "Thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ" (2 Cor. 2:14). This is not an up-and-down experience, but a day-by-day victory and triumph.
Our Savior "knew that the life of His trusting disciples would be like His, a series of uninterrupted victories, not seen to be such here, but recognized as such in the great hereafter" (The Desire of Ages, p. 679).
What will overcomers inherit? "All things." Some of the things to be inherited are mentioned in this same twenty-first chapter of Revelation: free access to the water of life; complete separation from unbelief, from the unclean, from deception, from idolatry, from falsehood, from crime and murder; the gift of a painless world, a sorrowless world, a deathless world, a tearless world.
The reward is great because the victory is great. Victories that are worth having are the result of hard battles. After the decisive victory on Lake Erie in the War of 1812, Commodore Perry announced the result to General Harrison in these words: "We have met the enemy, and they are ours." So Christ could have said; and soon all of His followers will be able to say the same.
Notice, the overcomer does not earn all things; he inherits all things. The servant earns; the son inherits. "Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God" (1 John 3:1). Through faith we are born again, become the sons and daughters of God, and inherit all things by right of birth.
Can we all be overcomers? Yes. How? By the blood of the Lamb and by the word of our testimony (Rev. 12:11). If we reign with Christ there, we must stand up for Him here.
MEDITATION PRAYER: "Thou God of my salvation:...my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness" (Ps.51:14).
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