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Risk is a
board game employing about 25 percent chance and 75 percent strategy. It
is the "game of world conquest." Each player starts with a certain number
of "armies" which are distributed over the "world" board. A roll of dice
determines who wins or loses "battles".
I get an opportunity to play this
game about once a year with some of my relatives. Often we will stay
up until unhealthy hours trying
to outsmart each other on a cardboard playing field with plastic pieces
and a few cards telling what countries we can own.
The game is called "Risk" because in
order to win, you must put your armies in situations where they could be
beaten. If you don't
take any risks, you will never win. You risk or you will find your
self huddled in some corner
of the world waiting for one of your giant opponents to
swoop down on you and wipe you out.
In the real world, Christians face overwhelming odds.
Jesus told us it would be so. But the Lord said through the Apostle
John, "greater is He
who is in you, than he who is in the world." Paul wrote in Philippians
1:28 that you
should be "in no way alarmed by your opponents-- which is a sign of destruction
for them..." We
don't have to back down!
Most of what the world threatens us with is no more than that,
a threat. Don't let the world get the best of you. Don't let peers
push you around with their words. We know the One who is the winner. We
know we are on the winning side!
All Scripture references are from the New American Standard
Version unless otherwise noted.
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