On the Winning Side

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One morning a few stitches on a brand new item of clothing came undone, making it unwearable. In my often late but rarely early mode, I was a bit frustrated at first. A saying I heard often during my childhood popped into my head completely uninvited: “I can’t win for losing.”

I don’t like defeatist thinking because it is debilitating in a given circumstance; and, if we aren’t careful, it can be debilitating for life.

Unwilling to be defeated in that simple matter, I pulled down my travel sewing kit, sewed up the rip in a jif, and headed out to relish the day.

Charcoal drawing of children learning to sew by J. Henry Bracker. Courtesy Library of Congress.

Every Christian is on the winning team. God said so. I propose a new saying for when we are feeling frustrated over little things such as undone threads or in agony about major ones: We can’t lose for winning!

But in all these things
we overwhelmingly conquer
through Him who loved us. 
For I am convinced that neither death,
nor life, nor angels, nor principalities,
nor things present, nor things to come,
nor powers, nor height, nor depth,
nor any other created thing
will be able to separate us
from the love of God
that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:37-39

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