Jan 4, 2020 WWJWMTD by Steve, the son of John

Get Ready to Lose

It is important to God that we become unimportant to ourselves but important to Him. Too often we take the world’s advice and make everything about ourselves. The world says, “We are important, we are significant, we must be respected; it is who we are and how others see us that makes us important.” Yet, God says just the opposite.

Jesus said, “If you lose your life, you will find it” Matthew 10:39. I like the English Standard Version, “Whoever, finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.” It is only in losing that we become a winner.

Adam and Eve had everything going for them. Life was indeed perfect; no sin, no trouble, no needs, no worries—nothing could not get any better! But Satan came along and all that perfectness, their perfect life was taken away from them. They destroyed their perfect lifestyle themselves.

Now we find ourselves on the other side of the fence—nothing is perfect in our world, yet we are always trying to make things perfect. This is an exercise in fertility. You and I cannot make ourselves or things around us perfect—it is time to accept becoming a loser.

After so many years trying to become someone, branding myself, working to make things better that I finally realize that I am unable. Sure, God asks me to make a difference and do acts of kindness, but it is not I but Christ within me that produces works that will withstand God scrutiny and evaluation.

Now I want to become a loser, a nobody, a second fiddle in the band, a follower—not a leader. It is and should only be Jesus in me, in front of me and in His footsteps that I walk in this life. As long I make anything about me then Satan will always win in this battle of life.

I am persuaded that this year, 2020, will be a year about Jesus not about me, you, or us. I have said this before that when I die, I do not want a tombstone/headstone that marks my name but simply says, “Jesus made this man a home in heaven.”

Do not remember me but let’s remember Jesus and the power of the Holy Spirit in our lives. Let’s not talk about how to make ourselves important, but who Jesus is and what the Holy Spirit does in our lives.

We need to pray this prayer, “Jesus make me a nobody so I can find who I was always meant to be in You. Jesus help me put you first in everything and me second. May my wants become what You want, and what I want to be a forgotten memory. Jesus, I just want to ‘want You’; it is just that simple!”

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Dr. Steven J. Wentland www.wwjwmtd.com

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