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"God answers my prayers everywhere except on the golf-course."

Billy Graham

Greater

You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them because then one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. 1 John 4:4

John’s letter includes some hard and challenging statements but it also gives us lots of encouragement. As we have noted before, everything tends to be black and white with John – you are either in the light or in darkness. There is no inbetween.

Here he makes another bold statement that we have overcome – not that we may overcome or will overcame but that we already have overcome. As competitors who cannot ever go into a race of game having already won – but in the spiritual realm we can.

I know an athlete who likes to repeat the words of the song, based on this verse “Greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world” while preparing to compete. It can be such an encouragement to know that God is with us and nothing can take Him by surprise. That does not mean that we will always win but that win or lose God is with us.

We have been set free to compete to the best of our ability for His glory know that one who is in us is greater than the one who is in the world

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