Placing your faith in God feels like taking all the risk out of the equation. If you go with God, what could go against you? But faith requires risk. You have to believe that God is who He says He is and will do what He has said He will do. So, in one sense, going with God is the least risky thing you can do and in another it is the most risky thing you could do. Pushing all in on God goes against a certain sense of self-preservation, but on the other hands, it guarantees another sense of self-preservation.
Matthew 16:25
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
If you try to save your own life for your own selfish reasons, you will lose it. Like holding sand in your hand, the tighter you squeeze the more you lose. You work against your interests by pursuing them. But if you lose your life for Christ's sake, you will gain it. Like emptying your hands to have something placed into them, the more you give up, the more room you have to receive things from God. This is the way God made the world and He is not mocked; what you sow, you will reap.
"Living in the world that actually exists is an enormous advantage. There are times when it almost seems to me like cheating or something. In the long run, we need not worry. In the long run, blind stupidity never works. The revolutionary alternates between throwing rocks at the moon and barking at it." — Douglas Wilson, Rules for Reformers
Having Christ on your side feels like cheating. It is like learning that a "God-mode" exists. It makes the rest of the game easier, but it does not make the opposition go away. There are still bad guys to fight and end bosses to overcome, but you have a weapon that is powerful to pull down their strength.
2 Corinthians 10:3-5
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.
Enemies still need to be overcome and demonic strongholds still need to come down, but with Christ on our side, why should we fear? Every high thing that is raised up against Him will one day bow down and confess that He is King. And that is why, even if you should find yourself outnumbered, you should know that you're not alone (or outnumbered for that matter)
"One man with God is always in the majority.” — John Knox
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