In the world ye shall have tribulation; but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
John 16:33
Then you may ask why have you, My children, to have tribulation if I have overcome the world.
My overcoming was never, you know, for Myself, but for you, for My children.
Each temptation,
each difficulty,
I overcame
as it presented itself.
The powers of evil were strained to their utmost to devise means to break Me. They failed, but how they failed was known only to Me, and to My Father, who could read My undaunted spirit.
The world, even My own followers, would see a Lost Cause.
Reviled, spat upon, scourged, they would deem Me conquered. How could they know My Spirit was free, unbroken, unharmed?
And so, as I had come to show man God, I must show him God unconquered, unharmed, untouched by evil and its power. Man could not see My Spirit untouched, risen above these earth furies and hates, into the Secret Place of the Father.
But man could see My Risen Body and learn by that, that even the last attempt of man had been powerless to touch Me.
Take heart from that, for you must share My tribulations.
If evil is to leave you unchallenged you must be evil.
If evil challenges you, if trials press sore, it because you are on My side, and, as My friends, exposed to the hate of evil.
But be of good cheer.
You walk with Me.
I conquered evil at every point, though man could only see it proved beyond all doubt when I rose from the dead. And in My conquering Power you walk unharmed today.
1 John 3:8
