A Promise for Overcomers

Rev. 3:12
Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.

Men and women everywhere, wrestling with life, have heard the promise to “him that overcometh,”… and the very sound of the words has brought them inspiration.… It is the Savior Christ who speaks.… The gospel story is all told. The work of incarnation and redemption is all done. Jesus has gone back to the Father, and now is speaking down to men and women on the earth, who are engaged in the special struggle for which He has prepared the conditions, and to which it has been the purpose of His life and death to summon them.…
Jesus is talking to the men and women … who should be fighters against sin, against their own sin, who should struggle to be pure and brave and true and spiritual and unselfish, because they loved Christ, because He had lived and died for them, because they belonged to Him.…
This … is the peculiar struggle to the victory in which Christ, out of heaven, gives His promise.… “Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall no more go out.”.… When, truly obedient, we have been made like Him whom we obey, then, only then, we have overcome in the struggle of life. And then we must be pillars in His temple.… There can be no end of the universe where God is, to which that growing temple does not reach, the temple of a creation to be wrought at last into a perfect utterance of God by a perfect obedience to God.… O my dear friends, that is the victory that is waiting for you.

Phillip Brooks, Candle of the Lord.