Victors or Victims?

After watching the day’s NFL games I saw a lot of winners and a lot of losers. By losers here I mean teams that lost, got beat or beat themselves. For the most part they took the fault of the loss as a team instead of blaming someone else. They were not victors this week. But they were not victims either. Victims try to blame others for the defeats. “It was his fault!” “It was her fault!” you will hear them say. Victims in life blame a bad childhood, or environment for their current situations and circumstances instead of forgetting the past and seeing how they can improve their situation through determination, hard work and, of course prayer. The enemy is always looking for victims. In the animal kingdom the predators go after the strays that are away from the herd or team. These are the ones who die. And then we have the vultures. The vultures pick at what has been killed or is dying to inflict even more damage. There are predators and vultures in the human world too and they attack just like they do in the animal world. The enemy goes after those who are not in daily fellowship with God and other Christians, who have “strayed from the herd”. The human vultures pick at the wounded or dying as if to say, “See God does not love you and can’t help you. Don’t be a victim. Stay charged up. God and His Word do not change. You can and will be victorious today if you trust in God and follow His Word

Numbers 23:18-20
Proverbs 3:4-6
1 Corinthians 15:54-56