After a while, the grief lifted. I held my head in my hands, trying to catch my breath. Sweat rolled down the side of my ribs from the all-out mourning. Peace eventually quieted me. Praise God, I thought, this is over.
The female pastor walked to the pulpit and began the eulogy for my friend. I have no idea what she said because the Lord chose this moment to speak to me once more.
I felt Him whisper to my heart: “My church is a bunch of nice losers. They lay their hands on the sick and pray for them, but when they die, they aren’t mad at all. They don’t check themselves out to see what happened or what they may have done wrong with their prayers and actions. They accept defeats and don’t think anymore about them.
“Now, Major League baseball teams are all filled with good players. Each player has to be one of the best in the world to make it to the Major Leagues. Losing teams have good players on their rosters, too. But after a while, losing teams’ players don’t mind losing because after all, they still receive their Major League paychecks and bonuses.
“But winning Major League baseball teams are different. They hate losing and will do anything and whatever it takes to win. They hate losing.
“I want My church to hate losing!”
This time the grief, which hit me, measured a ten on the Richter Scale.
(Excerpt from The Hunt for Larry Who by Larry Nevenhoven, © 2014, Amazon eBook)
This took place twenty-three years ago. From may viewpoint, the Church still does not hate losing spiritual battles yet, or at least, not enough to do whatever it takes to win them. Same old same old!
My prayer today:
Lord, do whatever it takes to open American Christians’ eyes to the world we now live in so we will take up the weapons of our warfare to destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God and to take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ. (Based on 2 Corinthians 10:4-5)
What do you think and has the Lord spoken to you today?
Join with me on Tuesdays to fast and pray for American believers’ eyes to be opened.
Larry Who 
Thank,you so much, Mr. Larry, for,sharing more from your book and from your times with God. Praying with you. I wish I had more to share towards this . . .but what I hear from God right now is mostly personal . I am thankful for it, need it, but feel out of the loop in other ways. God bless!
Debbie,
Debbie the Grandmother, right? Enjoy what God speaks to you and don’t worry what He doesn’t. It’s His choice. God bless you.
Amen!
Agent X,
Amen!
Thanks for the encouragement , Mr. Larry! :). God covered Aub and I to travel and stay and be of help! So blessed! But, I think I left my heart with them . . .ready to head back. :).
Debbie,
Now, you sound like a grandmother. The cutest, smartest, sharpest, best grandchild in the world, right? And of course, that’s true.
so true, and something to really chew on.
Yvette,
Thanks. God bless you.