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MARKING THEM RIGHT: THOSE WHOSE STRENGTH ARE SMALL - Capacity Building Series 003
Proverbs 24:10, KJV
"If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small."
The Bible speaks the truth and lie not when it says, "if you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small." In a movie shut by an iconic Nigerian cinematographer, a sudden attack is launched by a group of youth activists against the ruling monarch and his crown of office seized and taken away. While questioning the head of the police force and king's guard, and criticizing him for the ill preparation in resisting the invaders, he mentioned failing due to the surprise attack launched at his men. An elderly statesman replies, "do you not know that surprise is part of the battle antics?'' In other words, that chief is correcting the head of the King's Guard from seeking any ground for excuses because none is actually acceptable. The deed is done! Being a force member, he should have known better and anticipated likewise.
When people fail, they tend to give excuses. It just makes sense looking for someone to blame or pass the bulk to. However, the Bible is making no excuse or ground for such. It says bluntly, "if you fail in the day of adversity, your strength is small." No understanding of nonsense! The writer searched and couldn't find the cause for the failure of men in the day of adversity other than their strength being small. Any person's strength being small could then have come from zero preparation or ill preparation. What the Bible is saying in essence is, "if your strength and preparation were huge and strong enough, you wouldn't have been defeated in your day of adversity. You would have withstood and having done all, stand." People fail when they themselves are not sound, strong and secured. When you are not and adversity breezes up, it can't but make a mess of you.
A sailor once blamed the wind for being too strong for his ship to withstand. Other sailors with bigger and stronger ships shut him up and blamed him for sailing a weaker vessel on the high sea. If he had put preparation of a stronger ship in place and had not spared any cost at building such needed for sail on the high sea, he wouldn't have incurred harm or came to loss. Is somebody there mourning or blaming another for his failure? Your answer might be here. It may be that you were the enemy of yourself instead of blaming a colleague for your failure now that you have your examination result to see. If you had studied well personally, you'll have been equipped with enough content to put down. Why blame your friend for not helping you to cheat in the exam? Would you have been comfortable cheating? Your failure was caused by your small academic strength. Accept!
In building strength, you'll get to a place of boredom having repeated the same act time after time. That's actually when your ingestion of strength into yourself actually began. Once you're beginning to hit that boredom level after doing much to acquire strength, that's when to actually go on to give more attention to acquire more. As such, you'll come to a place of incomparable strength where when you are spent, you won't finish and where when demands call out to you, you'll give liberally. As such, you'll come out of the furnace like gold instead of being consumed like stubble in your day of test and temptation. So, do away with all other excuses for human failures and collapses. All those diverse failures and collapses are summed up in one thing that is inadequate - "small strength". Don't be a man or woman of small strength. Enlarge capacity in all areas of life, especially what you call your calling or life's work.
PRAYER: I shall not fail, fall or falter. I gather that I may not scatter in test and time of temptation.
1-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN
Romans 7:7-25 & Psalms 64-67
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