The Winner Takes It All (English)

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written by Daniel Muhl (translated by R. Nies)

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Many of us can remember the famous popsong of ABBA, „The winner takes it all“. It is about an unlucky person, who realizes that the beloved one turned to somebody else and that oneself is the big loser. Disappointed he understands: „The winner takes all, what he wants. The loser stands small!“

How often this happened to us, that we discovered such „winners“ that we thought „they get everything they want“. The winners were often very much liked people, or they were succesfull, popular or super rich, being able to afford everything they wanted. Or we were thinking of the powerful people in this world. It really looks like that they get everything they want. They seem to be the big winners in this world!

But the biggest winner of all times is the only one who could vanquish death! He is the very big winner in the universe, who is getting everything, what he wants. And He will! But He did not win because of his greed or power-posessesness, seizing everything what he can. Instead He won because of His love He could let go everything! Although He created this world (Colossians 1:16), He decided to appear very small in this world. He decided at free will to be born in a simple place, where He was lied in a manger. He was decided to lead a material poor life. He was prepared to refrain from honours and recognition of man.

The Creator of this world came as penniless man into this world and he was not accepted by His own people (John 1:11). He renounced to welfare and in the end He gave His life for us, that we all can have free access to our heavenly Father! The inhabitants of this world offered Him a place for dieing, as small as a wooden pole hits the ground, where He was made hang on it and suffer unspeakable tortures. At that time all people thought: „What a loser!“

But in reality He had taken all the guilt of this world upon His shoulders (John 1:29) and He defeated death for all of us (1 Corinthians 15:54-57). Therefore He is the big victor! Everybody who was allowed to live to experience this love of God cannot help but to love this Son of God with all of one`s heart. Through His death Jesus Christ took away the curse of sin and death that weighed on us. At the same time He gives us His blessing for love and life! Everybody, who believes in this, is gifted with the eternal life and will live, even when he is dying (John 11:25).

Nobody is loved so often and deeply like Jesus Christ! Because He will ever more win the love of man, He is also the winner who will get in the end everything and all what He wants. And He wants that all people are saved (1 Timotheus 2:4). It is only a question of time, till God is all in all (1 Corinthians 15:28) and consequently everybody and all will be filled with the godly love and life. Therefore it is only for Christ true:

„The Winner Takes It All!“