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Skin in the Game By Nassim Nicholas Taleb 

 

What matters isn’t what a person has or does not have, it is what he or she is afraid of losing. 

He goes on to say the more a person has to lose the more fragile they are.

Oh people can hide it with over confidence, arrogance, but thats a whole other topic.

 

But maybe he is on to something… I remember another author (author of life) who said 

He who loses his life for me will find it… 

 

Matthew 16

22 Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. “Never, Lord!” he said. “This shall never happen to you!”

23 Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.”

24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. 25 For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it. 26 What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul? 27 For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father’s glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what they have done.

 

Peter was afraid of what he would lose… that is if he lost Jesus he would lose his place of authority when Jesus over threw the government or set up a dynasty or whatever grand plan Peter was thinking…. if he lost Jesus, he lost his future. 

 

Jesus says something remarkable here… we typically miss it because we simply apply this verse to ourselves. Jesus said “he who wants to save their life will lose it… And we miss the point that Jesus within the next few days actually lives this out. He loses his life, he gives it up for the sake of Gods greater plan. 

 

And then Jesus says “what good is it if you gain the whole world… i.e. you don’t lose anything, but only gain everything - but don’t lose your life to jesus- it means nothing.

If that doesn’t hit you what about this that ties the final bow on it. If you give up your life for Christ you then have the ability to do what Christ has called you to do and you get rewarded for it in Heaven. So if you don’t give up your life… well then you won’t be able to have room to do what he wants you to do and you will have very little in heaven.

My youngest son when he was 4 had a wood cigar box that had all sorts of worthless items in it. Broken toy pieces, a few pennies and a nickel, a little chain, a toy robot that was bent in half… you get the picture. So for Christmas I needed a box to put one of his gifts in. So I took that and emptied it out- never truly thought he would miss a small pile of crap BUT HE DID. I had to convince him that Daddy needed that box and needed it empty so that he could give him something better… it took a little convincing but he finally rested on that and couldn’t wait until Christmas. 

You know the more crap you hang onto in your life, the less God can do in you and through you… its not even really a sin issue, but more of a space issue. You just don’t have enough bandwidth left in your life for God to do things… you are using it all for yourself.

I was training a client last week who is a recovering alcoholic. She said something I had never heard, but it hit me hard. She said “for years I fought for the right to hang on to one thing… my drinking. And it kept me from having everything I wanted in life. Now I have chosen to give up that one thing and I can experience all that I have wanted in life”. 

You can chose to fight over keeping your life… God is a gentlemen- he won’t fight you for it. But in return all you get at the end of your life - is your life… and thats just not a very wise return.