The difference between a winner and a loser is the fact that the winner is prepared to try, and looks for reasons why it should be done whereas the loser looks for the excuses not to do it.
I believe God had many reasons He could come up; as to say why He wouldn’t give this world His only begotten Son. But instead He looked for reasons why it should be done.
What impel God’s reason was the love He had for us, the bible says, “For God so loved the world that He gave away His only begotten Son that whoever believe in Him shall not perish but rather have eternal life” John 3:16 NKJV.
Well He would have looked for excuses, not to do it because after all He was innocent.
You see a winner says” It may be difficult but it is possible” A loser says, “It may be possible but it is too difficult.”
Winners use their intelligence to identify their usefulness, while losers use their intelligence to justify their uselessness.
“I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found no one” Ezekiel 22:30 NIV.
You see God was looking for someone who will say, “I can do it” rather than someone who would come up with reason why he or she is not a suitable candidate. When you rise up in faith God raise up in power and your enemies rise up with fear.
What is there in your life that you really want to do, really want to change? What is stopping you from doing it? Beware, most limitations are imagination and from neck up. If there really something stopping you then you should concentrate on overcoming that obstacle first.
One thing that Jesus had to face was the cross for Him to get the crown. However mostly we merely look for excuses not to take action.
I was talking to this young man who needed help with drinking problem. “Who is in control?” I asked, “What is stopping you from quitting?” “But you don’t understand. I want to quit but I just have so many problems. My daughter is sick. My mom is trying to run my life. My girlfriend has left me. I really want to quit but I must sort out these other problems first.” And he responded.
And I asked him again, “If ever I were to point you with a gun in your forehead and I give you a case of alcohol I then tell you if you drink a bottle I shoot you out, would you drink?” he responded so fast, “NO! I wouldn’t” and I smiled at him as if he told me he loves me. “Why?” I asked. He responded, “Because I don’t want to die.”
My conclusion to him was to say, “You found a reason why you should not drink, well do the same now find a reason why should stop.”
It reminds me of a text in the book of John 5:7, “Sir I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me…”
If you read the text the man is crippled and he want to be healed, so Jesus approach him and ask him if he want to be healed, instead of saying, ”yes” he starts to complain and state reason why he couldn’t go to the pool. Most of us are like that hey! We want things to be done but when we have to actually do the work we come up with all the reasons to why it cannot be done.
You have to find a reason why doing it and that reason it should be a reason why you doing it.
God reason to send us His Son was simple, He first loved us….then it became easy to give away what He loved.