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Winning Is Not Assured...
We all want victory. We all want a guarantee that what
we do will pay off in the future. We all want to know that, at the very
least, things will be all right in the future. The reality of our life
is that winning is not assured. In our life on earth, we can and do
taste defeat. The causes of our defeats are many just as the causes of
our victories are many. What we must fully grasp is that although
winning is not assured in every circumstance, we can still win out over
whatever adversity or circumstances we face in life. You may lose
everything and everyone, but even in this instance, you can win out by
not giving in and not giving up. Our greed, our lust, and our
selfishness corrupt our ideas of what it means to win. If we think of
winning as winning a prize without much of an effort on our part, we end
up being losers because we have not put forth much effort. Winning in
life, even if we have lost everything and everyone, requires effort on
our part. Just because you may be in grief over a loss in any area of
life, being in grief does not mean your grief will guarantee you a win
in the future. You may feel bad about losing, but feeling bad about
losing does not mean you will win in the future or deserve to win in the
future. To win out over circumstances requires we continually work
toward our goals and objectives. If our goals and objectives have been
taken from us, we must find new goals and objectives. True victory in
life is not about conquering another person. If we think of victory as
conquering another person, we end up losing in the end because we are
all supposed to empower others and make them better. Even in special
circumstances like stopping criminal behavior we are trying to make the
life better for a potential victim as well as the criminal. If we think
of winning as being way ahead of everyone else or outscoring them, we
eventually end up losing, because the factors of our achieving victory
change or we change, as our life moves forward. No one can win in this
life forever if we measure our wins and losses like we are scoring
points in a game. The greatest contributor to a winning life, or at
least to winning streaks in life, is how we handle the winning and how
we handle the losing. If winning and losing make us better, we win even
if we lose. If winning and losing make us bitter or destructive, we lose
whether we have won or lost. One of the greatest challenges of our life
is not to defeat others. One of the greatest challenges in our life is
to defeat the darkness or inner opponent within us. When we defeat the
inner opponent within ourselves, we are assured of winning out over
every circumstance.
If these words have been a blessing to you please forward them to a
friend.
These words were posted at one of Shepherd's Care Ministries Sites
called Wisdom Moment. The site is located at:
http://www.findthepower.com/wisdomminute
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