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Friday, July 15, 2011

Modern March | a Christian blog

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 01:10 PM PDT

Our culture feeds us a lot of mumbo-jumbo like, “be all you can be” and “you have to be the best YOU that you can be!” Have you ever actually tried that? Have you ever “pulled yourself up by the boot straps” and still fallen flat on your face? The is a reason why there are 5,632 new self-help books every year… because the never, ever work. Isn’t it interesting that the Word of God hasn’t changed or been improved upon ever?

It’s about time someone say it… you’re a loser. There will always be a stronger, smarter, nicer, classier, and funnier person than you and you probably learned this by the time you finished kindergarten. Even with extremely high self-esteem, you’re at best a proud loser and pride is why we’re in this mess in the first place (Genesis 3).

For the Christian, the “best you can be” is found in Jesus Christ alone. Because you’re a loser, because you can never defeat sin or be good on your own, Christ stepped into human history to have a flawless victory over sin, once and for all (Col. 2:13-15). Though our culture builds pride into us by pressing us to white-knuckle our problems, we should praise the Lord wholeheartedly for the fact that Christ has won a battle that we are not equipped to fight alone.

Your identity is now found in the Satan-whipping, sin-stomping life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Losers, rejoice!

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