What do you think it
means here when Scripture talks about overcoming?
Revelation 21:6-7(NKJV)
And He said to me,
“It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will
give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts.
He who overcomes shall
inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son.
Here is how the
dictionary defines overcome.
overcome
- to get the better of in a struggle or conflict; conquer; defeat:
to overcome the
enemy.
- to prevail over (opposition, a debility, temptations, etc.); surmount:
to overcome one's
weaknesses.
- to overpower or overwhelm in body or mind, as does liquor, a drug, exertion, or emotion:
I was overcome with
grief.
- Archaic. to overspread or overrun.
verb (used without
object), overcame, overcome, overcoming.
- to gain the victory; win; conquer:
a plan to overcome
by any means possible.
Pasted
from <http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/overcome>
I think maybe
definition number 1 comes closest to what I think this verse means.
Maybe I am reading
more into this than what is really there but I think when you take the Bible as
a whole, the most reasonable interpretation is that in this case
"overcome" means to accept Jesus.
How is that
overcoming? I think that for many people
when they are called to accept Jesus experience a certain amount of trepidation
or fear. They have to overcome that
inertia or fear and make a deliberate effort to accept Jesus. I think that is the overcoming that this
verse is talking about.
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