This victory is available to all God’s people, whatever they are called upon to go through. Sometimes it is an operation or a separation. Eventually, for all, it is death. In precisely these situations it is possible to rejoice in God and have joy in him bring victory. This is entirely different from the world’s approaches to fear—for, of course, the world faces fearful things too. One of the world’s reactions is resignation. A person will say, “If this is going to happen to me, I suppose there is