Underdogs

We live in a world that celebrates the powerful.  But we worship a Savior who celebrates the Underdogs.  Witness the following accounts:  

“Yet as I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be tilted toward the rich and powerful, God is tilted toward the underdog.” 

― Philip Yancey

“I have come to know a God who has a soft spot for rebels, who recruits people like the adulterer David, the whiner Jeremiah, the traitor Peter, and the human-rights abuser Saul of Tarsus. I have come to know a God whose Son made prodigals the heroes of his stories and the trophies of his ministry.” ― Philip Yancey

“For those who feel their lives are a grave disappointment to God, it requires enormous trust and reckless, raging confidence to accept that the love of Jesus Christ knows no shadow of alteration or change. When Jesus said, "Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy burdened," He assumed we would grow weary, discouraged, and disheartened along the way. These words are a touching testimony to the genuine humanness of Jesus. He had no romantic notion of the cost of discipleship. He knew that following Him was as unsentimental as duty, as demanding as love.” ― Brennan Manning

He said also to the one who had invited him, "When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, in case they may invite you in return, and you would be repaid. But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind. And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous."  --Jesus, Luke 14:12-14

"I'm in this race to win a prize, the odds against me
The world has plans for my demise, but what they don't see
Is that a winner is not judged by his small size
But by the substitute he picks to run the race 
And mine's already won..."  -- Audio Adrenaline

Feeling beat-up?  Feeling broken down? Feeling like the world has your number?  Jesus has a thing for Underdogs like us. After all...he was an Underdog himself.

Because of Jesus,