TUESDAY - 8TH FEBRUARY, 2022
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
NOT EASILY BROKEN
READ Ecclesiastes 4:8-12
Ecclesiastes 4:12, AMP
"12 And though a man might prevail against him who is alone, two will withstand him. A threefold cord is not quickly broken".
A thing that's quickly broken is a thing easily conquered. The right substituting word for "quickly" in that usage would therefore be "easily" for it means "very soon". If a thing proves difficult, it can't easily succumb to your devices of mastering it. So, such (even if it would be defeated) can prolong the time of its defeat or accessibility. A singular chord folded into three layers obviously becomes stronger compared to leaving it as a layer. Isn't that the reason why a secured building has many layers of doors. It is to make penetration difficult while delaying intruders' accessibility. Buildings housing treasures in ancient or even our times are of more than threefold layers. No strong room is of a layer or fold. The more the doors, the secured it is. The intention is to barricade immediate entrance even if there would be any at all.
A strand of broom has been broken many times by you. You did that effortlessly. What you haven't tried breaking is a bunch of broom itself. Even if you've tried breaking it, the witness you'll give is "it is not easily broken" and indeed, it won't break. It won't just yield. You may try but you'll come to the realization that there's a great insulation against that bunch of broom being broken. Force has been pulled together against you. Though effort is being applied and increased but it seems the resiliency of the broom proves you inaccessible. A strand is a weakling. A bunch is strength.
When you're alone without a second, there's a level of resiliency you can weave. You can prove stubborn just for awhile, refusing to be conquered. However, your resiliency and refusal is just at a level that we can't call trustworthy. We can ascertain or predict when you'll break. It can't be very lengthy. It is one that could easily cave in. Meanwhile, there is the effort of a second in any man's life. When a second man's effort is added to what you're doing, you're not easily broken. What could have easily defeated your partner or you finds it difficult overcoming two of you who are now a force. The thing will assault you but the ability to withstand, resist and persist will be doubled and much more persisting. You can become a troop against anything in life. We all know that a troop is not easily defeated. When you're more than one, you double not only energy but outcomes. Two always have a better reward. The Bible didn't say two can't still be defeated but it is not easily defeated unlike one that caves in very soon. That tells you, you will need to elongate yourself in battle and daily life affairs by the number of two. You simply need to buy time. Where a person is quickly beaten by his opponent because he is one within five minutes; if they become two against same opponent, even if he'll beat them, they can prolong and draw the battle for minutes more than five. This is the secret of lasting longer and staying there continually. Do you know how many people that would have been quenched if not for the contribution of the second. They would have been broken down long time ago except for a timely intervention of another that eradicates their being put to shame, entering into debt or even dying etc until a later time that even didn't come. When these acts of giving in is therefore postponed, they become strong and ready for new fights in the process of time. You must know that the devil, your major opponent capitalizes on situation and seasons of life to securing winnings against you. If at a dry season, you're easily defeated but for a timely intervention of a second, the chances of your being defeated then is postponed. If it is thus postponed, it means it may not even happen again. How did I know?
Revelation 12:15-16, KJV
"15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. 16 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth".
The earth came to the help of this woman. When that happens, there is a deferment of what should have happened to her there and then into the future. Consequently, it becomes "it may still happen or may not happen again". You just need help to get out of the danger zone. Once you do, you may actually survive it forever. One is easily broken but not two. Engage the power of two and show to Satan, life and any hard task that though humans are conquerable yet two can elongate their defeat into evasion. So, persist and insist in the power of two.
PRAYER: Lord, if my fall is scheduled for today, may it be deferred by the help you'll bring into my life. Let it always be postponed until the fall is no longer sure. I enter into strategic partnering.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Exodus 26:1-27:21, Matthew 25:1-30, Psalm 31:1-8, Proverbs 8:1-11
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