Australian cricket team is known as the worst losers. They will do
anything to win a cricket match. Sledging , cheating, putting
pressure on umpires, playing out of their skin- on the verge of
losing they will pull up every trick under the hat. Ask a Australian
cricketer and he will say, we don't like losing, we were trained to
win. Debatable philosophy on field.
But off the field. on life’s race, failures are inevitable.
Failures will come and will test what metal we are made off. Our
response to failures determines our Character. There are well known
quotes like:
-Failures are stepping stones to success.
-No great success was ever achieved without failure: Thomas alva
Edison 10,000 attempts to create a light bulb.Etc. etc
But no other quote is more powerful than this one” the mother of
all truths”...
It goes like this from Romans 8:28” And we know that in all things
God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called
according to His purpose”
Meditate
the depth in this verse. Someone asked” what is more important than
one’s life”.The other replied ”the cause for which one
lives”.Failures have a purpose, but that can only be seen from the
eyes of God. You and I may not have a podium finish all the time in
life, but then faced with failures you
can trust God to write your ending.
Always have God write the ending for every situation in life. We tend
to worry about the battle at hand, but God looks at winning the final
war. So its important to not see temporary momentary loses but look
towards permanent everlasting gains. Lose the battle (may be Yes),
but win the war, (oh yeah hallelujah!)
Reminds
me of the final
volume written by Sir Winston Churchill about the final years
of the 2nd world war. The overriding impression I received as I read
it was that the allies knew exactly when they were going to win the
war. And although it didn’t always go according to plan the fact
was that they
had a plan –
and
would make adjustments to the plan as they went. Churchill, along
with the American and Russian leaders that worked closely with him,
knew when Hitler’s and the Japanese nation’s demise was going to
happen. And they then continued to work towards the fulfilment of
that plan. They
never considered the possibility of defeat. It
was a detailed and well executed plan that we can now read in the
history books.
And
life is very much like that. I know for a fact that throughout my
lifetime there are innumerable battles that I have lost – but my
concentration is not on the battles. I want to make sure that I
position myself with God(Joshua 5:13-14) so that at the end of my
life God will be able to clearly declare – and it will be proved by
the legacy that I leave behind – that I have in fact won the war.
May
we ever be ready to face failures by the grace of God, for only God
knows what He is about.(the truth renaissance poem)
When
God wants to drill a man and thrill a man and skill a man when God
wants to mold a man to play the noblest part when he yearns with all
his heart to create so great and bold a man that all the world shall
be amazed watch his methods watch his ways how he ruthlessly perfects
Whom He royally elects how he hammers him and hurts him and with
mighty blows converts him into trial shapes of clay which only God
understands While his tortured heart is crying and he lifts
beseeching hands how he bends but never breaks When his good he
undertakes how he uses whom he chooses and which every purpose fuses
him by every act induces him to try his splendour out God knows what
he's about!
