How you gonna be "an overcomer", if there's nothing or nobody to overcome?
How you gonna be a winner or successor if there aren't others in the race or competition?
Without friction, nothing gets done -- you'll just be 'spinning your wheels', so to speak.
The serpent in the Garden isn't identified until Revelation 12:9 -- he's been here, the 'god of this world', 1Cor4:4, all the time, and making us think it was the Heavenly Father's fault. Isn't that just like the devil?
Yes, it's for OUR BENEFIT that Satan was introduced, but for a relatively short time it seems, and then there'll be a Rewards Banquet !! Hope to see you there. (fat chance, methinks)
Ecc9:11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Psalm19:5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.
1Cor9:24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
Heb12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, 12:2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Supporting the God of the Bible,
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!
Some people get so busy fighting alligators, they forget they began with the intention of draining the swamp! hah.
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