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But
God’s free gift is not at all to be compared to the trespass.... For if
many died through one man’s falling away (his lapse, his offense), much
more profusely did God’s grace and the free gift [that comes]
through...Jesus Christ abound and overflow to and for [the benefit of]
many.
– Romans 5:15, The Amplified Bible
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If you’re ever on a losing
streak and need someone to tell you how to turn things around, go to
God. He’s an expert on the subject. He’s suffered more losses than
anyone who’s ever lived.
Just think about it. He lost Lucifer, His
top-ranked, most anointed angel. And when Lucifer fell, He lost at
least a third of His other angels as well. Then He lost the man and
woman He had created. And because He’d given them dominion over the
earth, when He lost them, He lost it too. Any way you figure it, that’s a
lot of real estate down the drain!
Yet, in spite of all that, God
is no loser. He’s the greatest winner of all time. Do you know why?
Because He knows how to turn the losses around. He knows how to use the
law of giving and receiving to transform losses into gains.
“Give,
and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken
together, and running over…” (Luke 6:38). That’s the powerful principle
that breaks losing streaks.
Isn’t that staggering? He had every
option that exists to choose from to redeem the things He’d lost. He had
all wisdom and all power available to Him. Out of all that, the law of
giving is what He chose to use.
He gave the most irreplaceable
thing He had: His only Son. Then He backed that gift with His own faith.
And when the law of giving and receiving had done its work, the
Almighty Father God received not only His first-begotten Son, but
millions of other sons as well.
Don’t despair over your losses.
Redeem them the same way God redeemed His. Give and put the most
powerful principle in the universe to work for you.
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