Do you feel defeated? Like a loser who can’t do anything right? And you are sure that God will not continue to love you because you have failed Him so often? And perhaps, you are ready to let go of Him because He cannot possibly keep loving a loser like you?

When God sees you, He sees a conqueror (overcomer). Someone who has conquered over sin, hardships, and self-doubt. He does not see your current self but sees your future self. Whether you feel like it or not, whether your current life shows it or not, God sees someone who is a conqueror, those who are in Him!

That is what you are predestined for. It is not your own effort that will get you there. If you are chosen by God, which you are if you confessed with your mouth Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the death, then you are going to conquer over all those things you struggle with.

“No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.” Rom 8:37. And what have we overcome? v. 35 – shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?”

Your job is to abide in this great and loving Christ. Set your mind on His sacrifice and His holiness. Do not look to yourself. There is nothing there. But look to Christ. There is everything there. Seek to find Christ in as many things possible. He has his indelible imprints everywhere if only we will look. In a child’s smile. In a good-deed done. In a beautiful sunset. In our digestive system that works. In nations fighting for freedom, etc.

Your fellow conqueror,

PH