Take heart!

I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.

John 16:33 (NIV)

Life can be difficult, can’t it? We can get ourselves stressed and worked up about all sorts of things – including things that we have no control over. So why to we get ourselves to stressed?

Well, let’s be honest, we’re human, and as such we can often think we can ‘get-by’ on our own, without God’s help. But I’m sure just like me, you’ve found to your detriment, that trying to ‘get-by’ on your own, without God, does not end well.

I guess what I’m trying to do is remind myself, and remind you, that we must always place our future in God’s hands, as he has promised that even thought we may struggle in life, we can find peace when we put our trust fully in God. How can we not put our trust in God, because He has overcome the world!

I want to highlight the words of the first and last verses of ‘Eternal God’.

Eternal God, our song we raise
In thankful, overflowing praise,
For men of faith whose power was thine,
Whose love no barrier could confine;
They humbly offered Christ their bread,
And lo, the multitudes were fed!

Our great redeemer liveth still,
His love sustains us in thy will;
Because he conquered, we shall win,
His cross before, his joy within;
Our cheerful banners are unfurled,
For Christ has overcome the world.