day no. 15,874: all four aces

"An ethical man is a Christian holding four aces." -- Mark Twain

It is easy to be ethical when everything is going your way and much more difficult when someone else has all the aces. For the Christian, however, it is held that Christ holds all the aces: the world, the flesh, and the devil may think they have good hands, but God holds all of them in His and holds ALL the trump cards to boot.

The Christian is confident in Christ and continues in his integrity and his ethics. He has no reason to worry about other people's inferences or bluffs. His sin is out in the open and anyone can see his cards. He has no reason to assume he will get caught... because he can’t be. There’s nothing to catch. Christ already caught hell on our behalf. So, the saint sleeps well at night knowing who he is and what he has done and that in Christ his sins are forgiven and his reward already secured. 

Romans 14:22

Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.

A Christian has confidence like a poker player holding four aces. If you're holding all the Aces, you know that no one else has any. You are untouchable and indomitable. No card can be played that you cannot overcome. No obstacle can be formed that you cannot crush. No move can be made that you can not counter.

Isaiah 54:17

No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord.

Don’t let all the enemy’s kings lead you to forget that you have a full house and that Christ holds all the aces.

Don’t sweat those jokers.

They may be wild, but they be busted.

Straights defeat twos of a kind and threes of a kind are wiped out by a Royal flush.

The inheritance of the saints is a clean conscience and sound sleep.

Rest assured, Christian.

Hebrews 10:35-36

Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.