Victory in the Battle
DeVries offers an expository meditation on 2 Timothy 4:7-8, using Paul's farewell testimony as a prisoner in Rome to encourage believers to persevere in faith and finish their spiritual race with confidence in Christ's victory. The article emphasizes the assurance and triumph available to Christian soldiers who maintain their faith despite life's darkest battles.
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing. II Timothy 4:7-8 Even in the darkest hours, when the battle has been raging the fiercest, as soldiers of the cross, we are able to sing: "Christ shall have dominion over land and sea, Earth's remotest regions shall His empire...
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