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Written by DeLano Sheffield, a contemporary writer and business resource specialist for Goodwill.

What are you certain of? Many are convinced that 80% of things that never happen will happen; this is demonstrated by the worry associated with it. But what about the things that will happen? How convinced are you of what is to come?  If you knew that no matter what might happen everything is going to be all right, what would your outlook on life be? What would your plans for the year look like? … You will inevitably have success at some point in an aspect of your life. Those successes should be held in the right perspective in light of Christ’s accomplishment once for all. Also, inevitably a real failure of some sort will occur. No matter how deeply real the failure is, or the lingering effects, they cannot overshadow that there is a courtroom where all your failures are paid for. What is true for you in your confession is also true for every other disciple of Christ also. Like Paul, you are empowered to encourage others with the very thing you are experiencing also. Come what may, the unexpected turns in the story, the carefully thought-out decisions or horribly carried out plans for you and for all who have called upon the name of the Lord, there is at least one victory that no one can remove.

No, in all these things we have complete victory through him who loved us! For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor heavenly rulers, nor things that are present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. [Romans 8:37-28]