Wednesday’s Thoughts
Title Finders Weepers, Losers Keepers, Choosing the Losing Side
Idea is that the reign of God on earth represents an ‘upside-down kingdom.’
Scripture: Mark 10: Whoever finds life loses it, and whoever loses life for my sake finds it.
Also Philippians 2: Have this mind in you which was in Christ Jesus, who emptied himself and became human, becoming a servant, even unto death.
Story about Edward Ives in Listening for God, chapter 5 plays a big role in the sermon.
Also from Mountains Beyond Mountains where Paul Farmer says as summary of his life among the poorest in Haiti:
“How aboutif I say, I have fought for my whole life a long defeat. How about that? How about if I said, That’s all it addsup to is defeat? I’m not going to stop because we keep losing…So we fight the long defeat.”
It’s a message about how despite the long odds of curing issues like poverty, racism, violence, war, etc., that we must keep on fighting even if we are fighting the long defeat, for ultimately we are fighting for what is God’swill and therefore are really on the winning side, perhaps not in life this, but in the God-life.
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Ray Miller
