Gains and Losses

So Jesus answered and said, “Assuredly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My sake and the gospel’s, who shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time—houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions—and in the age to come, eternal life.

Mark 10:29-30 (NKJV)

Whatever you have lost in life has no bearing on what God is still able to supply. What’s gone in your life doesn’t count against what God can still yet give. There is a lot that carries expiration dates in our lives, but God’s presence and God’s promises have no expiration date attached to them. He can give you much more than anything you have lost in your life.

• No effort to restore or reconcile anything in your life.
• No physical or emotional investment you have ever made.
• No forgiveness or energy or assistance that you’ve offered.
• No treatment or exercise or therapy that you’ve committed time to.

Nothing has taken so much from you that God can’t give you much more than you have dispensed.

I don’t care how swiftly it made its departure. I don’t care how quickly Satan descended and took it from you. I’m here to tell you, your God can give you much more than you have lost.

That’s the power of God’s eternal might. That’s the endless nature of God’s divine resources. That’s the borderless reality of our human possibilities. That’s the divine power of our God’s sovereignty. That’s the majestic nature of God’s creativity. That’s the security of God’s living covenant. That’s the height and breath, width and depth of God’s love. That’s exactly what He means when He says, “I’ll never leave you, and I’ll never forsake you. I’ll be with you always, even until the end of the age.”

I don’t know what decision you are contemplating in which the potential losses are weighing heavy against the call of faith to take the leap. Don’t let your life be limited by the prospect of your losses.

You serve a God who promises that He can give you much more than you will ever lose!