The Weak Link (1)

Everybody knows (or so I believe) that the strongest chain is only as strong as it’s weakest link.

You could use the purest of metal to form the strongest chain ever, but, if one of those links has a crack or a porous area in it, the chain will snap right at that spot when enough strain is placed on it.

What or where is your weakest link today?

Heb 12:1 Therefore since we also are surrounded with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily besets us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, 2 looking to Jesus the Author and Finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and sat down at the right of the throne of God.

I may display the kind of faith that would move a mountain, yet, if I continue to entertain, consider, harbor, maintain or just keep some area in my life, that might weaken me, I have a weak link.

The author of Hebrews advises us to lay down that particular weakness that so ‘easily besets’ us. He indicates that it (that thing) comes upon us easily.

Evil, the devil, satan, temptation, doubt, will never attack our strong points. That would be a futile attack. No. He will always attack our weak spots, because he knows, that is where we will `snap`.

Psa 139:23 O God, let the secrets of my heart be uncovered, and let my wandering thoughts be tested: 24 See if there is any way of sorrow in me, and be my guide in the eternal way. (BBE translation)

Somebody once said, “build your strengths and starve your weaknesses”.

I agree. Build and strengthen the strong areas in your life. Develop your talents; increase the already developed focus points in your armor.

Starve your weakness. Don’t feed it. Don’t dwell on past issues that cannot be changed or reworked or made to be unsaid.

Let your `setbacks` become the platform for your `comebacks`

Strategically developed plans will bring success.

We develop good habits the same way we develop bad habits. By repetition. Don’t repeat the bad habit, practice repeating the good habit.

Follow the `stop, start & continue principle’:

• Evaluate your life, attitudes and actions and find out what it is that you need to stop doing and stop doing that.

• Research and find out what is it that you need to start doing to bring about the required change and do that.

• Rediscover your strengths and continue in developing that.

Luck has nothing to do with it. Hard work, excellent planning, determination, those are the keys to success. Nobody plans to fail but most of us fail to plan.

We need to develop a sense of urgency in our desire to change, to get to a place where we desperately want to please God and not man.

To be continued