The Opportunity In Loss

The Opportunity in Loss

They just foreclosed on your house. Where will you live? Your 401(k) just took a nosedive. How will you retire? Your spouse just told you she’s leaving you. How can you possibly go on?

All of us will experience loss. Sometimes the loss is legitimate, as will be the pain that follows. Sometimes the loss is a wake-up call that what you were clinging to so tightly doesn’t matter. But no matter what we lose, with the pain of loss comes an opportunity.

The opportunity in loss is that your choices become simpler, your focus more singular. When everything is stripped from you, you can choose to despair, or you can choose to finally surrender to the only One who can make things right.

What you’re really surrendering is your definition of what matters. You live on more than God, but God is all you need. Suffering loss is often the best gateway to that epiphany.

“What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit their very self?” —Luke 9:25