Humility, Faith, and Grace: Qualities of Victorious Living, Part 4 - Conclusion

Humility, Faith, and Grace: Qualities of Victorious Christian Living, Part 4 - Conclusion

This is the final part. It gives a brief summary on the role of humility, faith, and grace in victorious Christian living.

Humility, through one's awareness and acknowledgment of his weakness, one turns to God in faith and accepts the grace which God gives freely to help in time of need. In this way, our weaknesses and infirmities do not have to lead to failure.

Our weaknesses and infirmities lead to failure when, rather than exercising humility and faith to turn to God for grace to help, we muster with pride our own self-effort to deal with our challenges. Then when we fail we excuse our failures pointing to our weaknesses and infirmities. This is the sort of Christian living that is very popular today.

Paul, however, gives us a practical example of the operation of humility, faith, and grace to bring victory, instead of failure, to a weak Christian buffeted by the devil. Paul does not testify that his weakness and infirmity lead him to failure in the face of his challenges. Paul acknowledges his weakness with a sense of humility and helplessness, and by faith he turns to God for grace to help. He then finds all the grace he needs in Christ to offset his weakness. And he is able to testify of victory in spite of his own weakness.

Paul testifies in 2 Corinthians 12:9-10: "And He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness." Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong."