1 John 5:4 to 5 (NIV) ~ For 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 he who believes that Jesus is the son of God.
Overcomers my fail, but they try again.
Overcomers may get knocked down, but they get back up.
Overcomers may lose the battle, but they win the war.
Overcomers may suffer some set-backs, but they rise up and recover all.
The Bible does not call us survivors, but it calls us overcomers.
The Bible does not call us just a conqueror, but it calls us more than a conqueror.
I remember the story of a donkey that fell down an old well shaft. The farmer looked down, and after assessing the situation, decided it would be easier to just cover over the donkey and bury it alive. So, he went and got his friends. he told them all about what had happened, and what he was going to do, and they all came and started shoveling the dirt down on top of the donkey.
The donkey could have said to himself, “Poor old me, nothing good ever happens to me. Daddy donkey was a drunkard, my brother donkey was the ugliest donkey that ever lived. Nothing good has ever happened to my family, so I guess this is my lot in life. It guess it’s my turn now for bad things.” But you know what that donkey thought to himself (if donkeys could think, that is)?
“Every time that they throw a shovel full of dirt down on me, I am just gonna’ shake it off and step on up, shake it off and step on up, shake it off and step on up.”
Eventually, that donkey made it out of that well.
My friend, when we fall into pits of discouragement, and the world has gone and done us bad, instead of thinking, “Poor old me”, just “shake it off and step on up.”
When the devil is throwing his shovelfuls of dirt at you, “shake it off and step on up.”
When people are throwing their dirt at you, “shake it off and step on up”, so that the very thing that they are trying to break you with, the very thing that they are trying to bury you with, you turn it around and let it be the making of you; let it strengthen you. “Shake off all the dirt and step on up out of that pit,” and walk free, walk tall, walk on as a better, stronger and more faith-filled person for God.
The Bible calls us overcomers, so every time the devil tries to get to you, “just shake it off and step on up.” Step up to a new level of trusting God, for greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. If God is for us, then who can be against us?
God bless, your friend, Matthew.
