Continuing in Victory
We continue in the Life of Victory as we entered it, by continuing the attitude of surrender and faith, moment by moment. It is the principle of “contact”; as long as the trolley keeps on the wire the electric power is supplied to run the car; as we keep looking unto Jesus there is Victory. If a slip of faith comes, if the trolley gets off the wire, and sin enters (which is always possible but never necessary), do not stop to argue with Satan about the sin or listen to his suggestion that you never had Victory: confess, receive instant forgiveness (1 John 1:9), look again in faith just as when you entered into the blessed “rest of faith.”
Does this message leave you with joy and gladness in your heart, because you know that this life is yours? Have you taken the Gift? Or are you like the young Christian who told an older woman that she had surrendered and believed a thousand times, and she was in hopeless darkness about it all.
“Well,” this older Christian said, “just stop doing that, or trying to do anything, and trust him to do it all.”
“I have done that a hundred times,” was the discouraged answer.
She had no will power to do anything, and she was hungry for Victory.
“If you can do nothing else, just lift up your heart to Christ.”
“I can’t. My heart is too heavy to lift up.”