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Topic: The Game of Life (09/11/08)
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TITLE: God and I vs Satan and Sin | Previous Challenge Entry
By Amanda Gray
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The competition is grossly one-sided when I play with God as my partner. I gaze in wariness tinged with pity across at Satan and Sinful Nature.
The hands are dealt. Silence descends. We all examine our cards.
Satan groans, Nature moans as they sort through their hands. All they have are clubs and spades. Resentfully, they play.
Satan starts and leads a spade, trying to bury me. God responds from his hand of hearts, trumping them, protecting me.
Sinful nature strengthens Satan’s strong hand of spades. He tries to trick me, make me fail, but I follow God’s wise play. Concentrating on his plan, I won’t misuse my hand. I will follow up his lead, though I don’t understand.
The first hand won, the game goes on. Satan leads a club. He takes a swing, knocks me down, taking my eyes off God.
Satan has desperately played his hand, despite knowing he cannot win. The only triumph he will have is weak and fleeting.
Sometimes the hand is lost when I play without thinking and seeking God’s lead. Sometimes the hand is lost because God sees the purpose in defeat.
He doesn’t cheat. He doesn’t count cards. He is just omnipotent. He can’t help seeing the big picture, and his wisdom outclasses opponents. He knows which hand he cannot lose, and ones he must forfeit. Just as once he sacrificed his Son for Satan’s ultimate defeat.
Satan’s victory is transient. The game is already won. God leads his lesser partners to win, relying on his Son.
So while Sinful Nature follows Satan’s clubs, bludgeoning, condemning with bruising doubts. I know that in the end my God will win the game if not the bout.
But God plays his hand majestically, trumping all with diamonds. Smashing, dismantling, grinding the clubs of our helpless opponents.
From his hand God doesn’t use clubs, his mercy too strong. But he may take us on tortuous routes to find a hand of diamonds. He won’t use spades to bury us, he just supports and carries us. He holds and uses the greatest hand, one full of hearts, to defend his man.
So, if I were a betting man, I would stake my life on the toughest game being won with God on my side.
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Very inspirational :)