Dear Friends,
What marks the man or the woman who will come out victorious in Christ? Today’s devotional answers that question and will help you see if that will be the outcome of your faith. God bless you.

Because of Calvary,
John Janney

• II Timothy 3:12 (ESV)

   Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,

“Our preparation for sufferings is an excellent argument of the honesty and sincerity of our hearts, in the matters of religion: he that makes account of sufferings, and is daily at work with his own heart, mortifying his corruptions, weaning its worldly affections, exciting and making ready its suffering-graces, resolving, in the strength of God, to take his lot with Christ, wherever, and however it shall fall; this is the man that hath deliberately closed with Christ upon his own terms, and is like to be the durable and victorious Christian.” [The Works of John Flavel VI, (Edinburgh: The Banner of Truth Trust, 1820), p. 18]