On a bus trip home with the YSA from a joyful snow trip, we watched the film Cool Runnings!
As always, I love to draw parallels and lessons of the gospel from the media I watch.
Derrice (need to find spelling) asked his coach: "Coach, why did you cheat?"
His answer was simple:
"I had to win."
People who win all the time might become used to winning, to the point where they always expect it.
When a threat to our winning streak comes, they can be strongly tempted to cheat, and abandon principles and virtues.
We could possibly understand ourselves through the example of David - king, conquerer, popular. He wanted Bathsheba, and he got her. Quite possibly in the language of his day, he had said, "I had to win."
This is not to say that the many people who win all the time are conditioned with this weakness. Rather, that it is possible.
So, in light of this principle, losing often is a sweet blessing from God.
We prepare ourselves for the eternal victory, when we are caught up unto exaltation and eternal life. It is then that we say the opposite of "I had to win. Instead we say, "I had to lose - I had to give up and lose myself in sacrifice and consecration to God - and the winner was God, for He wins us because we gave ourselves to Him."
We are His greatest treasure.
Let us lose ourselves in the making, keeping and renewing of covenants, and lose ourselves in blessing others by helping them receive the same.
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