But there are multitudes of Christians who are truly surrendered,
holding nothing back, who do not have Victory. For the surrendered life
is not necessarily the Victorious Life. Surrender is _our_ part. The
supernatural work of Victory is _God’s_ part. _God is doing his part
as soon as we yield ourselves_, and we get the benefit of it when we
believe that fact. This is Victory by faith. “Faith does nothing. Faith
believes that God is doing it all.” Faith is just believing the word of
God. Those marvelous promises, or rather “facts” of God’s Grace which
have been quoted above can only be received by the Christian who is
holding nothing back from God. Then all the rest is God’s work.
Is he faithful? We have surrendered. Is our part then to believe that
God will give us Victory? _No, that is not faith._ “Victory’s final
secret,” as Mr. Trumbull has put it, is to believe that Christ _is_
doing his part, that his Grace _is_ sufficient, that we _are_ free from
the law of sin, that we _are_ under Grace and not under law and that
therefore sin _is not having dominion_ over us, that he _is_ meeting
all our needs, but we _are_ walking in the Spirit. This is “letting
God.”
Will you not “let go, and let God?” Now?
If you do, you can say with Paul, not only as a truth of your position
in Christ, but as the blessed truth of your experience: “I have been
crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ
liveth in me” (Gal. 2:20).