Post #39 - Why You Lose

I recently heard someone say that God gives and God takes away. This is true, but sometimes we are blaming God for something He did not do. Sometimes, we are the causes of our own loss. 

God may ALLOW the loss to happen. But it is often our pride, arrogance, selfishness, and stubbornness that is the culprit. It is our emotional state that causes us to lose. 

We hear that still, small voice of God telling us the right thing to do, the right way to go, and the right thing to say. But, we let our feelings override Him and we act according to our emotions anyways.

We know that we should not do or say a certain thing, but we do or say it anyways out of anger and spite - out of the emotion of the moment. 

We promise to never hurt the one we love, but they end up getting hurt because we react in our anger. Or we allow our loneliness and vulnerability to drive us to a place where we should not be. 

Many of us lack self control and we lose what we love, not because God took it, but because we failed to control ourselves and pushed what we loved away. 

Too many times we blame God, or even the devil, for our losses and the situations we get ourselves into. When it's ourselves that we need to blame. 

It's convenient to blame someone else for what we're going through or what we've lost. But, ultimately, we've got to take a hard look in the mirror. We've got to take responsibility for ourselves and our own actions. 

And until we take responsibility, we're going to keep finding ourselves lost... and without that which we love the most.