The Victorious Life
by Unknown Christian
(Author of "The Kneeling Christian")

From an un-copyrighted paperback book, published by Zondervan, noting "First paperback printing 1966 Fourteenth printing August 1976 completing over 100,000 copies Printed in the United States of America". This public domain first-release CDLF Etext ("EE-text", i.e., electronic text) edition of _The Kneeling Christian_ was edited and initially distributed in 1997 by Clyde C. PRICE, Jr. "mail: 3145 Peachtree Road NE, Suite 125-169, Atlanta, GA 30305 USA Founder and President: The Christian Digital Library Foundation, Inc.

Excerpt:
Is there such a Life? St. John plainly says that every child of God "overcomes the world." Now  THAT is Victory! And he tells us how Victory is secured: "This is the VICTORY that overcomes the  world- even our faith" (1Jo_5:4) -- and then most of us give up in despair! It all seems too  vague-too indefinite. Besides, isn't our faith too small or too weak? Or perhaps we don't possess  the "right kind of faith" to get the Victory.

With many of us there is a sneaking idea that the schoolboy was very near the mark when he said  'Faith is believing what ain't." But of this we are sure: to most Christians the Victorious Life is a  beautiful mirage which vanishes into thin air, or recedes into the distance as we try to approach it.  And so we look forward to finding it in heaven!

Now St. John isn't speaking about Victory in heaven-for THERE, "faith is LOST in sight." So there  must be a Victory here on earth, in some way the result of faith. The writer would gladly give all  he had in the world if in exchange he could have seen this way of Victory 25 years ago! After many  years of Bible study; after many fears of futile "struggling with temptation" which, with  monotonous regularity, tested him, he at last saw a way out-or rather a way IN. It was to him a  new way-a LIVING way -- and eagerly he entered in. He now sees there is such a thing as Victory,  and he marvels how he missed his way before. In the joy of-to him-a wonderful discovery he longs  for others to share the blessing-in these "last days." And is there not a real heartfelt yearning  amongst Christians today to lay hold-not on LIFE, for they have that -- but on "LIFE MORE  ABUNDANT"?