# “Be strong in the Lord” by Richard Sibbes

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- Published: 2012-02-21T22:00:09-06:00
- Author: tollelege

“The victory lies not with us, but with Christ, who has taken on Him both to conquer
_for_ us and to conquer _in_ us. The victory lies neither in our own strength to
get it, nor in our enemies’ strength to defeat it.

If it lay with us, we might justly fear. But Christ will maintain His own government
in us and take our part against our corruptions. They are His enemies as well as
ours. Let us therefore be ‘strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might’ (Eph.
6:10).

Let us not look so much at who our enemies are as at who our Judge and Captain is,
nor at what they threaten, but at what He promises. We have more for us than against
us. What coward would not fight when he is sure of victory? None is here overcome
but he that will not fight.”

–Richard Sibbes, _[The Bruised Reed](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1848718039?tag=toletaupanre-20)_(
Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1630/1998), 122.

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