The Life That Cannot Fail

We stop striving with what’s empty when we trust what is full.

📘 Devotional Credit: His Victorious Indwelling by Nick Harrison, excerpt from Charles G. Trumbull
📷 Photo Credit: Unsplash

Today’s reflection from Nick Harrison invites us to exchange our notion of Christ as our Helper for the far richer truth: He is our very life. We often settle for trying to serve God out of our own energy, even with good intentions. But Jesus never asked us to work for Him—He desires to work through us, expressing His life in us and through us as effortlessly as a hand moves its fingers.

This victorious life isn’t simply about overcoming sin; it’s about abiding in a fruit-bearing relationship where our service flows naturally from our surrender. We do not strive to produce fruit—it is Christ in us who produces fruit, just as He served during His time on earth.

The foundation for this life is simple, but not shallow: (1) absolute surrender to His will, and (2) faith that He has already delivered us from sin’s dominion. We are not waiting for freedom; we are invited to believe that we already have it because of what He has done. Our faith rests not on how we feel, but on the unchanging reliability of His Word.

And as the devotional gently reminds us—Christ Himself is better than His blessings. He doesn’t merely give power, victory, or purpose—He is the source and substance of them all. To live in union with Him is to live a life that cannot fail, for He cannot deny Himself.

📓 Personalized Journal Entry – Voice of the Holy Spirit Through Scripture

I do not wish to stand beside you while you strive. I dwell within you to be your very life. I am not asking for your help—I am inviting your surrender. I am not improving your old life; I am expressing My own.

You are not a tool to be gripped tightly and used occasionally. You are one with Me, like a branch is one with the vine. When you let go of control, My life flows without hindrance. Service becomes natural, not effortful. Victory becomes steady, not episodic. Fruit appears—not because you labor, but because I live.

You once tried to work for Me, hoping to prove your love. But now you are learning to let Me work through you. That is the love I seek: the trust that yields, the heart that rests. I came not to be served, but to serve—and I have not changed. I now walk in you to fulfill the will of the Father just as I did on earth.

So yield to Me fully—every fear, every plan, every failure, every strength. Believe that I have already freed you from sin’s grasp, even when you cannot see the evidence. My word is more reliable than your feelings. My grace is not future tense—it is present sufficiency.

I do not ask you to produce something for Me. I only ask you to abide. For in this abiding, I am seen. And when I am seen, the Father is glorified.

Scriptures referenced: 2 Timothy 2:13; Galatians 2:20; John 15:4–5; Matthew 20:28; Romans 6:6–11; 2 Corinthians 12:9

🧴 Real-Life Analogy

It’s like using a lotion bottle with a broken pump. You can keep pressing down harder, shaking it, or trying to scoop out what’s left—but none of it works like it’s supposed to. Then someone quietly hands you a brand-new bottle, full and functioning. All you have to do is stop trying to fix the old one and start using what already works. That’s what living in Christ is like—you stop wrestling with your brokenness and start resting in His fullness.

🙏🏼 Prayer of Confidence

Jesus, thank You for being more than my strength—you are my life. I rejoice that I don’t have to labor to produce fruit or strive to overcome sin. In You, I am already free. In You, I am already whole. I yield to Your life in me today with joy and expectancy, knowing that You will express all that pleases the Father through me. You are enough. And because You cannot fail, I do not fear the outcome. I am Yours.