"Lord Of The Losers"
MT 9:10 While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew's house, many tax collectors and "sinners"
came and ate with him and his disciples. 11 When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, "Why does your
teacher eat with tax collectors and `sinners'?" 12 On hearing this, Jesus said, "It is not the healthy who need
a doctor, but the sick. 13 But go and learn what this means: `I desire mercy, not sacrifice.' For I have not come
to call the righteous, but sinners."
Jesus wasn't Lord of the winners, He was Lord of the sinners, and what most considered
to be the losers of His day; The drug addicts, prostitutes, and cheats. He took a lot of heat from the religious crowd
for hanging out with these low-life's, but He knew that they would be closest to accepting His higher life. Have you also
had a loser kind of looking life? Well if so you are in very good company, because all of us were losers before we met
Jesus. Actually anyone that is going to Hell is lost already, and any accomplishments that they make here on earth will not
mean anything once they end up suffering for an eternity without salvation.
There has been a pattern in Christianity where modern day Christians tend to avoid
the "losers" because they can be rather offensive and needy. I thought I was in good touch with my humility and compassion
until me and another man ran a ministry home with over 35 street people in it that came to live with us. These people stank,
swore, and really struggled. I learned very quickly that there was still a lot of pride and self-righteousness
left in me that needed to go. I'm not sure that I've even mastered it all yet, but I know now that God's heart beats
for the losers of this world, so we had better get in tune with what is important to Him.
LK 19:10 For the Son of Man came to seek and
to save what was lost.
Thank God for your loser life and for everything that God steered you away from
that would have made you feel more important, because many of those things would have just been a hindrance and distraction
to you, where you might not have even gotten saved. Losers see their need for God, others think they are doing just fine
on their own. Soon Gods power will be given to us, and the first people we should seek out are the losers, because they
are the sickest and need Jesus' virtue more than anyone else. And just like Jesus got hassled by the Pharisees, so will
you, but don't let that deter you from helping those who really need it.
A lot of your loser life will make perfect sense when you are ministering to other
losers like yourself. John the Baptist looked like quite a loser with his rough clothing and bug legs stuck in his teeth from
eating locusts, but he had God's heart toward the common man, and so will you. Like God, look beyond where someone is at,
and to where God will take them. Look where God took us from? I don't know about you, but I was a pretty pathetic
case, and without God's mercy and grace I would have surely been lost. Ask God to give you His heart for the losers,
and go help them just as He did. Jesus makes winners out of all of us losers.
MT 22:9 Go to the street corners and invite to the banquet
anyone you find.' 10 So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, both
good and bad, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.
