Where the Victory Is.

If God is really real.  If all those Bible stories you hear and you tell and you profess to be true, if they are true.  If David really defeated the giant with one stone of faith.  If the Isrealites really crossed the Jordan with one step of faith.  If Rahab really saved her entire family with one act of faith.  If Jesus' death and resurrection really saved you from death, solely because you accepted His gift as enough, with one choice of faith.

Then how do you live your one life?

Because if God is real, and all it takes is faith to be made right and acceptable with Him.  Yes, if God is real, and it's really real that you are saved by faith alone.  Then how do you live your one life?

Where is your victory?  Over your giants, and through your storms, and in your relationships, and over your one life?  Where is the victory?  

Because it matters.  It matters a whole lot.

If all it ever took was faith.  Faith to believe the Good News.  Then all it ever takes is faith.  Faith to live this life.  To step forward and live this one life, abundantly.  Faith to start, life.  Faith to finish, the good race.

And that is where the victory is.

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"I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith." - 2 Timothy 4:7

"For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, 'The righteous shall live by faith.'" - Romans 1:17