ARC Session 4: Gain Through Loss: God's Way to Victory

Victory is not often a word associated with patients facing various physical and mental problems. Rather, we hear phrases such as: we will get through it, hang in there, first you accept it and then you can move on, and suck it up. The phrases are born and bred in human wisdom. I heard these phrases so often, and from Christians, that I wrote a book on endurance (Endurance: What It is and How It looks in the Believer's Life). My goal was to help believers endure God's way. The Bible is replete with the admonition to godly living by way of contrasts. The Bible uses contrasts such as holy and unholy, clean and unclean, wise and foolish, light and darkness, the narrow road and the wide road, and fear of the Lord and fear of man. I have also alluded to the fact that a person can grieve God's way or the way of the world, be angry God's way or the world's way, and be fearful God's way or the way of the world (1 Thessalonians 4:13; Ephesians 4:26; James 1:19-20; Proverbs 3:5-8).