Can God Lose?

I am gamer by nature, so this is an important question to me. I see almost everything in life as a game of sorts, and so I define what it means to "win" and to "lose". Most people do this to some degree for various things in life; say when you are driving and feel the need to pass other cars instead of letting them pass you. Perhaps you just want to "get there" faster; I want to win. I am not exactly sure what I am winning, but I am winning!

Something that often bothers me is that it seems like God is losing. Let me back up and define the play field and the winning conditions here. I see God's play field as "Creation". Winning means Creation existing as it was meant to, losing means that it exists in some other form. On a more human note, winning means that humanity is restored to its original relationship with God, and losing means that it is not. We are in the middle of a study right now called OnePrayer, and it is very good so far. This last video was full of statistics meant to "Wake Us Up". The relevant ones were that 20 million people die each day, and that 13.9 million of those die not knowing Jesus. I am not sure how these numbers come together. I figure they are pretty much just taking the global statistical averages and applying them to daily numbers, and in general only 33% of the people in the world claim to be Christians.

So, when I look at these numbers my first thought is, "God is... losing." And, that bothers me. It does not bother me in the sense that I feel that I need to "get out there" and tell more people about God, it bothers me in the sense that I have a hard time picturing God as a loser. I don't struggle picturing God as one who sacrifices, as a giver, or as a servant. He was all those things and people called him a loser; but that is only because they were short-sighted and failed to see how all of those things led to His victory.

I have not really searched out my Biblical evidence and position on this topic, but in my gut I just believe God wins. Perhaps my definitions of "win" and "lose" are off, and I just don't know the real goal of this whole game. Or, perhaps God is doing better than we think and our definition of "knowing Jesus" is off to the degree that we see God is losing when in reality He is not. Perhaps God is restoring this world, His Creation, to its original form and we are too blinded by our own rules and definitions to see it. I honestly hope the latter is true. Call me old-fashioned or old-school, but I still like the stories where the good guy wins in the end.