Today’s readings:
Rev 18:1-23, 19:1-9; Ps 100:1-5; Luke 21:20-28
With Jesus Christ, there are
voices of victory, with the devil there are voices of defeat. When Jesus will
come again to judge the dead and the living, there will be voices of victory.
The book of Revelation tells it all: “After
this I heard what sounded like the roar of a great multitude in heaven
shouting: “Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God, for
true and just are his judgments. He has condemned the great prostitute who
corrupted the earth by her adulteries. He has avenged on her the blood of his
servants” (Rev 19:1-2). Don’t wait for Jesus’ second coming to hear the voice
of victory. Tune in to voices of victory. What you need is selective hearing. Heaven
starts from the earth, it is a continuation.
Whoever tells you that Monday is
a blue Monday, that is not the voice of victory. Don’t listen to “can’t be done”
voice. That is not the voice of victory. When someone is convinced that things
can’t be done, he will cling to that conviction in the face of the most obvious
contradiction. The story is told of the time when Robert Fulton gave the first
public demonstration of his steam boat. One of those “can’t be done” fellows
stood in the crowd along the shore repeating, “He can’t start it.” Suddenly,
there was a belch of steam and the boat began to move. Startled, the man stared
for a moment and then began to chant, “He can’t stop it.” Robert Fulton stopped
it. He didn’t listen to the voice of defeat. To defeat the voice of failure,
have the will to succeed. You were born to win. David Ambrose said, “If you have
the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don’t, you have
achieved half your failure.”
