Daily Deprogramming

This morning I was reviewing a wonderful book by Corrie Ten Boom, called Jesus Is Victor.  To refresh your memory, she survived 4 years in a German Concentration Camp as punishment for  her families hiding of Jewish people during the Holocaust. She was in her fifties at the time and endured horrendous abuse at the hands of the Nazi’s, freezing cold, hunger, nakedness, bedbugs, lice, seeing her whole family killed, and the loss of countless friends who went to the gas chambers, and much more.

There was a story where she was trying to smuggle a Bible into the camp.  Everyone was being searched. And she was in line after line as the people were being searched.  She says at one point , “All I needed was an Angel to shield me, so I prayed,”  “Lord, make your Angels untransparent.”  She says “How unorthodox you can pray when you are in great need. But God did not mind, He did it!”    The woman ahead of her was searched and her sister was searched behind her several times in sveral lines , but Corrie was not searched and used that Bible to hold Bible Studies and lead people to Christ.

After all she endured, Corrie believed Jesus was Victor.  She went on to travel all over the world and evangelize and wrote countless books about her experiences  and her love for Jesus Christ, one of which was Jesus is Victor.    

Not only is He Victor, but so much else. The Bible says,  He is Love, He is Light, He is Life, He is Truth, He is Faithful and True, He is Mighty, He is Almighty, He is Merciful,  He is Compassionate, He is our High Priest, He is the Bread of Life, He is the Door of the Sheep, He is the Great Shepherd, He is the Great Physician, He is the Lamb of God, He is the Lion of Judah, He is our Friend, He is our Brother, He is our Savior,  He is The Lover of our Soul, He is Lord! He is God!   “If”  this incredible amazing ”God is for us who can be against us!  Who shall seperate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine , or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For Thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.  In all these things we are more than conquerers through Him that loved us. “ Romans 8:31-37………………

Down through the ages and even today, there have been countess Christians who , faithful to Him and His cause have died by the sword, they have been tortured, hung, burned at the stake, sawn in half, beaten, imprisoned, they have been thrown to the lions,  they have had to watch their children be eaten by lions, They have been shot,  drowned, starved, at the words and testimony of false witnesses and the hands of betrayers and even  false Christians, but died knowing Jesus is Victor, filled with Hope because they knew Jesus lives.  They must have thought of the verse, “We will not fear, what can man do to us?” Hebrews 13:6

One thing I know is that Jesus Christ Won on Calvary and He said “It is finished.”  Because of this we need not fear whatever the enemy sends our way.  Whether we win or appear to lose the small battles of life, God has already won the War.   Whatever little things we endure for the cause of Christ will be Glory for us at His appearing. The battle is not with flesh and blood ,but with the powers and principalities of darkness, and they have already been defeated! 

Hallelujah!  Come Lord Jesus!  Jesus is Victor!