{"id":898,"date":"2009-11-04T11:03:13","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T16:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=898"},"modified":"2009-11-04T11:04:08","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T16:04:08","slug":"five-best-things-god-never-said-part-4-god-never-said-you-wouldn%e2%80%99t-lose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/five-best-things-god-never-said-part-4-god-never-said-you-wouldn%e2%80%99t-lose\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Best Things God Never Said, Part 4: God Never Said You Wouldn\u2019t Lose"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"I\u2019ve lived long enough to learn that people fear losing and failing almost more than anything; even to the point of being willing to fail in the very act of avoiding failing.\u00a0 It sounds weird, doesn\u2019t it?\u00a0 But that\u2019s real life.<\/p>\n

Add God to the equation.\u00a0 People tell you that if you love God and accept Jesus into your heart, He will bless your life with an unbroken string of successes.<\/strong> You\u2019ll succeed at everything; marriage, life, business.\u00a0 You\u2019ll have all the money you\u2019ll ever need.\u00a0 Life will go up and to the right.\u00a0 You\u2019ll never lose, like other people.<\/p>\n

Then we come to a story like Job<\/strong>, who lost everything he had in the span of an afternoon, except of course his own life, and his nagging wife.\u00a0 Stories like these fly in the face of these surface, cosmetic promises that we hear people make.<\/p>\n

The truth is, God never promised that you wouldn\u2019t lose, just that nothing of significance would ever be lost.<\/p>\n

As you go through life you\u2019ll learn a bittersweet truth: everything comes to pass; nothing comes to stay, in this life.\u00a0 That\u2019s the amazing thing about Jesus, The Christ, The Anointed One.\u00a0 He came to redeem, restore, and reconcile so that ultimately we\u2019d go back to God\u2019s original idea; a world in which we would make of our lives something beautiful and creative, and it would last for eternity in beauty, truth, and amazing grace.<\/p>\n

On this planet, if you haven\u2019t learned yet, you will, that you\u2019re going to lose.<\/strong> You\u2019re going to lose your hair, your good looks, even your physical strength.\u00a0 You may lose your marriage either by divorce, separation, or death.\u00a0 You most definitely will lose a couple of jobs along the way.\u00a0 Your teams will lose, your stocks will go down, this will happen.\u00a0 But the promise from God abides; that though we win, we lose, we gain, and we give back, nothing of true significance will ever be lost.\u00a0 The people we love, our soul, the things we give away in sacrificial love: these things will abide forever.<\/p>\n

Even Jesus said to lay up our treasures in heaven where rust, moths, and taxes can\u2019t chip away at true wealth.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re mad and upset because someone promised you that if you love God and be obedient and go to church, serve, give, and sacrifice, that God would reward you by never allowing you to lose, or at least not lose much, jettison that lie for the truth.\u00a0 God promised that though you\u2019ll lose, nothing of significance will ever be lost.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve lived long enough to learn that people fear losing and failing almost more than anything; even to the point of being willing to fail in the very act of avoiding failing.\u00a0 It sounds weird, doesn\u2019t it?\u00a0 But that\u2019s real life. Add God to the equation.\u00a0 People tell you that if you love God and … Continue reading “Five Best Things God Never Said, Part 4: God Never Said You Wouldn\u2019t Lose”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}