Last week I took my nine year old son to the go cart track.  During the first race I somehow grabbed the weakest/slowest car.  It could barely get my 210 pounds up the slight incline at one point on the track.  I spent the whole race waving at every other racer as they whizzed by me.  I felt like a serious loser! 
The second race, however, I ended up in the fastest car.  This car was the equivalent of Kobe Bryant playing against a 6th grade team.  I lapped everyone several times during the course of the race.  I felt like a winner.  I was superior, unstoppable, dominant! 
The experience jumped out at me as a life metaphor for two critical truths.  1.  I had quickly attached my sense of identity and worth to a performance outcome.  We as men are so tempted to do that.  and, 2. The performance outcome was a lousy measuring stick of my true worth and identity.
The "winner" and "loser" experiences/feelings had nothing to do with me.  They were random acts of which cart I happened to sit in.  Men, our "winner" and "loser" experiences/feelings in life aren't necessarily always a true representation of who we are.  Let's remember and be careful to only take our sense of worth and identity from the source of truth, Jesus and God's Word.
Men:  if you're out of a job right now, you're not a loser!  if you're dominating the track at work, that doesn't necessarily make you a winner!
Rudyard Kipling, in "If" says, "If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two imposters just the same . . . you'll be a Man, my son".
Men, don't fall into the trap of letting "imposters" define you and your sense of worth.  A godly man must tune the ears of his heart to hearing all Jesus says about him.  His Word about you, is who you truly are and defines what you're truly worth.