Greetings,
Let's
face it. You want to win. That's why you read motivational articles and listen
to motivational speakers. Even watching others win can be fulfilling. Winning
is exciting! No one needs to tell you that. This is why people compete to win.
Everyone wants to win because winning brings many benefits. It brings
recognition, emotional highs, awards, and commemorative plaques.
I
personally believe that winning and the desire to win is actually inherent to
human nature. Think about it. Nobody competes to lose. Even little children
grasp this concept. Winning means victory, and with victory comes positive
emotions. Even in the odd case that people are competing to quote on quote
"lose", the ability to "lose" changes its significance in
that the one who loses actually wins. If people are competing, there is a
winner, and thus winning is inherent to human nature.
The
proper question is not: do you want to win? The answer to this question is yes.
Instead, the right question is: are you winning, and if not, why not? This
means that regardless of what has happened, you want your marriage to win. The
circumstances may make winning in this area feel so far from reality that you
think you want to lose, but remember that losing is against your nature. You want to win in your job. You want to win
with the house you buy. You want to win with the friends that you have. You
want to win in the relationship you share with your children. You want to win
period! Therefore, if
you are not pursuing victory in your life, you are living contrary to your
nature.
Why
is this important to understand? Sometimes people can experience enough loss
that they forget their inherent nature. For instance, maybe they lost their
first love. They lost their parents before graduating high school. They lost
their first child to a rare disease. They lost their virginity to a rapist.
They lost, and it corrupted the way they view themselves and their ability to
win. Therefore they begin to live contrary to their nature. They accept defeat
and they learn coping mechanisms. This is the person that considers themselves
a "loser." Sure enough, as this person continually makes decisions
out of this flawed perspective of their identity, others will begin to consider
this person a loser as well.
You
may know a so-called "loser". Maybe you are a so-called
"loser". Either way, to live the life of a "loser" is to live a life contrary
to human nature. This is important to understand, because if you have
considered yourself a loser, then this is your wake-up call. Put simply, you
too can win! Stop living contrary to your nature! If you are reading this and thinking: who are you to tell me I can win...then I have news for you.
Your circumstances no longer have to be your problem. I have a solution that
trumps everything you've suffered and endured. I have a solution that will
liberate you from every blockade and barrier that has ever held you back in
life. Are you ready for it? His name is Jesus.
Now
before you wave your hand and tell yourself, "I've heard that before," let me ask you a question. Have
you really? The problem is, if we think we know Jesus and we are still losing
we are truly living a life of deception. We are living in a void of lies and
using our own will to enforce our failing approach to life. Allow me to explain
how this works. Jesus is the ultimate example of victory. Out of His own mouth
came the words, "I have overcome the world."
So
what does this have to do with you? Everything—and
now it's time to learn why. In the book of 1 John 5:4 it says, "For
whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith." Here is my point. If a person is born
of God they overcome the world—period. Moreover, the victory that
overcomes the world is our faith. In other words our ability to trust God
becomes a major determining factor in our ability to win!
Let
me put this another way. God is your maker. He knows that He designed you to
win. Hopefully at this point you have also realized that you were designed to
win. So what's your problem? Why do you keep losing? Why does your marriage
fail? Why did you lose that promotion? Why couldn't you even win the friendly
game of Monopoly last night? I am partly joking about that last item, but here
is my point. The problem is that you were not born into winning circumstances.
It is called the curse, it is called death, it is called original sin.
In
other words God designed humans to be winners. When Adam and Eve sinned in that
garden, death entered and the curse of sin came upon us. This placed us in a
state whereby losing became a very real
aspect of life. This created a dichotomy in that while losing is a very real
part of life that can be difficult to overcome, there is an element of our very
nature that longs to win in every situation. So how is Jesus the solution to
this problem? He came to destroy the power of death and remove the curse. He
did this so that we could reign in life through Him. "For if by one man's
offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall
reign in life by one, Jesus Christ (Romans 5:17)."
Do
you know what I call reigning in life? I call that victory! I call that winning.
Jesus is the game changer. Jesus came to replace fallen realities with new
creation realities. As a new creation in Christ... you too can win!
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