When Losers Are Finders

[253 words] Most of us have had the delight of finding something of value—a dollar bill on the sidewalk, a piece of jewelry in the grass, a tool by the wayside. I recall hearing this saying in my boyhood: “Finders keepers, losers weepers.” In the spiritual realm, however, the expression sounds like this: “Keepers weepers, losers finders.” This seeming contradiction is what discipleship is all about. According to Jesus in Matthew 16:25, if we put our selfish desires first, we become losers. But if we use our lives for His sake, we receive life in abundance. A story from the “Choice Gleanings” calendar illustrates the point. Drifting snow and bitter cold threatened the lives of Indian evangelist Sadhu Sundar Singh and his Tibetan companion as they crossed the Himalayan mountain pass. Fighting the “sleep of death,” they stumbled over a mound in the trail. It was a man, half-dead. The…