Winners
There cannot be a winner without losers I've been told
For this is just the way it is from time way back of old
For all must run the race but only one can come in first
And all the others simply come in second best to worst
But this is not the principle by which God operates
Nor is this what the scripture says or what the Bible states
For in the realm where heaven is the winners are not few
But are determined by their life and all that they've been through
For though the race requires much as much as we can give
It only sees as losers those who choose not how they live
To be determined by their love and reverence of God
Instead of how the world outside determines how they've trod
The path that they've been given often not by their own choice
But by the works of other folks as well as by their voice
That presses them to be one thing that they would never be
Or speaks in such a manner that confuses how they see
The world that is around them that has fallen in decay
That knows not of the Saviour's love and what He had to say
About His mighty Kingdom where the saints of God will shine
Because in their relationship they share the Saviour's mind
The mind that sees no losers in the ones that give their all
Who come out fighting by the faith that holds them straight and tall
By virtue of relationship that holds the hand of God
That leans not on their own accord but on the Shepherd's Rod
That Rod of loving discipline that's found within God's Word
That's listened to with bated breath through every thought that's heard
Impressed upon their wounded heart that seeks the Lord each day
And listens most attentively while silently they pray
As in the heat of battle or the challenge of the race
They know with every confidence that by God's loving grace
As long as they give all they have to win the victor's crown
Come that almighty judgement day in them there will be found
The heart of God's own champion who would not know defeat
But only how the voice of God encouraged them to meet
Each challenge with the knowledge that no losers will be found
In those who left their all upon that blood stained holy ground
1 Corinthians 9:19-27; Deuteronomy 11:22-28
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