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Winners & Losers

There may be no greater distance between winners and losers in a sporting event than the annual Super Bowl.  

Take the example of the Saints and the Colts in this year’s game for example… the Saints get whisked off to a parade that will shut down the entire city of New Orleans.  Hundreds of thousands of people will cheer them on.  Then they’ll get whisked off to Disney World to celebrate with Mickey.  Then they’ll get whisked off to the White House.  These men will never be the same again for the experience.

What happens to the Colts?  They walk off the field, change in the locker room, send their unused, pre-printed “Super Bowl Champions” t-shirts to Nicaragua then get on a plane.  When they arrive in Indianapolis, eleven people greet them.  Seriously.  Eleven people showed up to greet the Colts team and were cordoned off two hundred feet away from the team for safety reasons. 

In 1 Corinthians Paul talks about running the race to win (1 Cor. 9:24).  Winning takes focus, dedication and, in football, a few lucky bounces.  The Super Bowl winners and losers remind me that we love to celebrate our wins and downplay our losses. 

It makes me wonder… what do I do with my “spiritual” losses?  The times I lose the battle with temptation… the times I lose my patience with my family… the times I lose hope that God can change hearts… the times I rely on my power, not his… I don’t know about you, but I don’t like to talk about them.  I have the tendency to downplay my losses as much as the next person.

But the Scriptures set a different model for us, and that is that our “losses” can and should be shared by the community of faith – sometimes through confession, sometimes by encouragement from others, always through prayer.

My encouragement to you this week is not to downplay your losses.  Don’t keep them to yourself.  Don’t believe that lie of Satan that you’re the only one struggling with the issues you’re struggling with.  Bring them to the safe light of a safe community and see God’s power become perfected in your weaknesses.

Striving with you,

 

Pastor Tim

Posted on Thursday, February 11, 2010 by Tim Rogers

2 comments (Add your own)

1. Shirley Mast wrote:
Even though I was rooting for the Saints, I'm sad on the part about only eleven people greeting the returning Colts. Wow. Less that one person per team member.

Hearing that story makes me even more thankful for the people who have surrounded me when I've lost the Super Bowls of my life. Having support like that makes it worth the risk to be vulnerable, even in the face of humiliation and loss.

February 12, 2010 @ 10:11 AM

2. Tim wrote:
Good call Shirley - I hope we all have more than 11 people who can surround us during down times!

February 12, 2010 @ 11:22 AM

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But as we face so many difficulties that we do, is it God's desire that we feel lost in how to face them?  Does He desire us to worry like we do?  Or feel so helpless to unravel the challenges of what we face?  Have you ever said, "I just wish God would tell me which direction to go!"  

Rather than feeling lost, we believe God has another plan for us - the way of wisdom.  

Join us for our summer series at GPC entitled "Street Smarts: Taking God's wisdom where the rubber meets the road."  We're going to be looking at the book of Proverbs and seeing what God has to say about facing the complexities of life with the wisdom that He wants us to have.  

We look forward to having the conversation with you.  

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