April 1st 2017 / WINNERS AND LOSERS

The University of Connecticut women's basketball team called the Huskies has won 111 straight games. This record of straight wins is not normal but an amazing run until they played the Mississippi State Bulldogs who upset the UConn women with a last second shot in overtime. When the press interviewed UConn coach Luigi "Geno" Auriemma after the game he was very gracious. Geno said that he told his girls that they now know what the other 111 teams felt that they had beaten. You learned how to win but it is just as important to learn from losing so you may be a winner again.

Geno is a wise coach. Jesus is a wise God. It looked like Jesus lost on the cross but three days later Jesus came back from what looked like a final defeat to show up at the Resurrection a winner. A winner for the souls of humanity throughout history and into the future. We were losers filled with sin but when we accepted Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior we became winners. Let us learn from being sinners and move forward to be saintly winners.

John 11:25Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me, even if he dies, will live.

Prayer: O'Lord, help us to learn to be winners from the times when we lose, in Jesus name, amen.

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