the way to victory

“…everyone who has been born of God conquers the world. This is the victory that has conquered the world: our faith.” ~ 1 John 5:4, CSB

Dodd, commenting on “faith” in this passage from the Beloved Disciple of Jesus:

The way to victory is not a confident assertion of our own better selves, but faith, and faith necessarily refers us to something beyond ourselves.

The victorious faith of the Christian is trust in God as he is revealed in Jesus, the Messiah, his Son. It means committing ourselves to the love of God as it is expressed in all that Jesus, the Messiah was, and all that he did.