D-Day Is Not V-Day A theologian of our time, Oscar Cullman has given an answer to this in the simplest terms We live, he says, in the interval, so to speak, between D-Day and V-Day All who can remember back to June 6, 1944. remember the tre mendous victory of that hard fought D-Day. But the war went on for nearly a year after that. Was D-Day, then, a failure? By no means. With D-Day the war v. as virtually won The enemy had little chance, after that; but it took a lot of fighting, and some of .1. like the Battle of the Bulge, costly and disheartening. So we arc living, in the time between Car:. ' s ascension and his coming igain in glory, as it were between D-Day and V-Day. ' Whal God Has Done What has been accomplished by God's D-Day? One thing is, that God's power has been shown, once and for all. Over and over in the New Testament, especially in the letters of Paul, the power with which God raised Christ from the dead is called the same power that works in Christians. The victory over sin and death which we see in Christ, can be the hope and to an increasing degree the exper ience of our own livis. There real ly is a difference between living in the world before Christ and af ter. All that Christ was and did and said, climaxed by the resurrec tion. are ever before our minds if we only think. Before Christ, no one on earth really know what God could do. Since Christ, men of faith do know. The oilier achieve ment of D-Day's victory is, for us, sharing in God's certainty of vic tory which finally shall be com plete. One of the easiest and subt lest temptations into which we can fall is to wonder whether God may not at last be overwhelmed by a universe which he created but can not now control. Realizing what D-Day means, we need never have such fears.

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