The Best Team

I was having a conversation with a good friend at work, when another man that works in the same building, approached us to visit for a minute.  We asked him how he was doing and his response was one of discouragement.  "I'm close to just throwing in the towel."  Many have felt the very same way as this co-worker of mine.  My friend and I took the next few minutes to offer encouragement and, more importantly, hope.
I have given a lot of thought to the gradual loss of hope that so many battle with throughout their lives.
I offer a great insight--it is actually truth. 
We all chose to come to this beautiful earth.  We were excited at the prospects of coming to a place where the surrounding beauties would offer us a little of every kind of interest that we would have.  We were going to come here, at varying times, formed into families.  That was a neat concept for all of us, and we were fully in favor of the plan--in fact, we raised our hand in support.  We knew that there would be joys and there would be pains.  We knew that there was going to be opposition.  That opposition would persuade us to do things and make choices that would be contrary to the knowledge that we  had already gained.  We knew that we would make a lot of good choices and some bad ones would be laced into our life, too.  In this life, no matter what opposition we contend with, the reality is, that in the end, the good is going to prevail.  Who doesn't want to be on the winning team?
If any one of us knew beforehand that when the whistle is blown to start a sporting competition, that we were going to be on the losing team, there isn't a single person that is going to stay on that particular team.
When life's struggles come, and yes, they will surely come, remember that each one of us has to muster all of the courage and strength we can to keep a clear picture in our minds of the victory that lies ahead for us. 
It seems so hard but the reward for enduring the sometimes unthinkable is worth every struggles we will ever have to face.
It is our divine mission to be on the winning team.  We were created by a loving Father, who wants nothing more than to have all of His children returned to His presence.  There isn't any challenge that is too much for you to handle.  The Opposition desires discouragement and frustration to enter into your life.  That Opposition knows that the discouragement only has to come a little at a time and over just a short period he can have you bound helpless and hopeless.  It is this Opposition that has mastered this unique, and for him worthwhile, plan. 
We are all important children of our loving Father.  Do the things in your life that will firm up the walls of safety and security against this evil power.
We are on the best team ever assembled in any arena ever known.  We are supposed to be on, and stay on, the winning team!  Never forget it.