I’m enjoying an unexpected day off from school due to snow! The world is covered in white, and it reminds that one day we will be as white as snow as far as our sins are concerned. But only if we will keep our faith to the end and resist the world and sin.

In the early chapters of the book of Revelation, Jesus repeats this phrase to all seven churches, “The one who conquers will be clothed in white garments.” (Revelations 3:5)

What does it mean to conquer? It means to press on in faith to the end, overcoming the world and sin. (1 John 5:4)

The world and its pleasures try to lure us away from our faith constantly. The hardest thing about it is that it’s not something bad. It’s often something good. Comfort, rest, prestige are good things. But if they become the ultimate things, they become sinful things.

One way we lose our faith is through fixating on something immediate and urgent. Not many people intentionally step away from faith. But busyness of life and pursuit of better things (money, promotion, children) avert our gaze from Jesus to the world. (Matthew 13:22)

You don’t fall out of faith. You slide out inch by inch.

Life is short.

Your money will be gone.

So will your family.

So will your health.

Don’t slide out of your faith in attending to what’s immediate and urgent. Have you thought that perhaps those immediate and urgent things are put in your life by God to grow your faith? And yet those are the very things that we use as excuses to slide out of faith…

Ponder on this irrefutable logic: He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose. 

Christians are not dumb. They do not want good things. They want the best thing.

PH