Lose-Lose-Win July 14, 2008
Posted by Josiah in Knowledge of God, Life.Tags: Battle, God, Knowledge of God, Mistake, Positive Thinking, Power, Romans 8, War
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I hate a lose-lose situation. It seems that every time I turn around I’m in a position where no-matter what I do, I can’t win. But I have discovered a secret: the lose-lose-win situation.
The lose-lose-win situation is when you are in a lose-lose and you decide to respond well and make it a point to learn from your loss. What you learn from a loss can lead to a win later.
Every loss is an opportunity to become more mature. Every time I make a mistake, I have the opportunity to learn from that mistake.
The lose-lose-win is really just another way of saying “all things work together for good” (Romans 8:28). Or in other words: it’s all good. Every circumstance has the potential to make me better, even ones I don’t start well.
I need to look farther down the road than my present situation to see that I come out the other side more mature than I am now. Not in a “power of positive thinking” kind of way, but in a “I know God is using this to draw me to Him” kind of way. My circumstances may suck but God can see the end from the beginning, and He says it’s good for me in the long run.
What causes me to have to die to myself today, can save me from myself later. Like the saying goes, “lost a battle, but won the war.”
-J
Don’t you remember, Josiah? Hearing this until you almost got sick of it: “Every irritation is an invitation to go to the next level!”