The media today is filled with the ups and downs of what is happening in the world at this time causing much anxiousness all about.  However, for the believer, God tells us to be ‘anxious for nothing’.  Scripture tells us of our safety in Christ.  Let’s look at some of these assurances.

“If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.
For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.”  
Colossians 3:1-3

Your life and my life are hidden with Christ in God!  It is so now, this moment! This is our position; it is a position of safety.  If a position of safety, then a place of peace and confidence as The Amplified Bible tells us in John 16:33,
“I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have [perfect] peace and confidence.  In the world you have tribulation and trials and distress and frustration; but be of good cheer [take courage; be confident, certain, undaunted]!  For I have overcome the world.  I have deprived it of power to harm you and have conquered it for you.]

Scripture asks, then answers:
“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?  Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?”  Romans 8:35
“Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. Vs. 37

“Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.”  1 John 5:5

We are called to be overcomers!  Christ Jesus has very specific things to say on this very thing in the Revelation as He speaks to the seven churches.  He is speaking to us today as well.  Read Revelations 2:1 through 3:22 very carefully.  Heed His words,
“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”  Then see the rewards ‘to him who overcomes.’

In Revelation 21:6-7, the Apostle John writes,
“And He said to me, ‘It is done, I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end.  I will give to the one who thirsts from the spring of the water of life without cost;
He who overcomes shall inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be My son.’”

In the above Revelation Scripture He says very clearly,
‘he who has an ear to hear what the Spirit says…’
And in verse 21:6 ‘I will give to the one who thirsts’
When we listen to and drink in the things of God is where our focus should be, on Christ.  Only in Him are we more than conquerors!

“And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding, in order that we might know Him who is true, and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ.  This is the true God and eternal life.”  1 John 5:20

God has made every provision for us, let us give Him free hand in our lives to make and mold us according to His heart’s desire.  We are His and He is our awesome God!  Praise the Lord forever!  Amen