Where is your source of strength?
In a ship, we call it the keel. It runs from bow to stern down the center of the vessel. You can’t see it, but without it, the first storm will break the ship in two.
A car’s strength is in its frame. If it’s rigid and sound, the car can travel on rough roads and hold itself together. Crack the frame, however, and your automobile turns into a limp dishrag and is good to no one.
Even you, you have a bone structure. Try to stand without it. You can’t see it, but without it, you’d be like an octopus, all jelly and slime as you slither across the deck of a ship.
We find the hidden source of strength for the Christian in Psalm 119:11:
“Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.”
When we delight in the law of the Lord, we want to have it in our heart. It’s called memorization and needs to be a high priority for every Christian. It becomes our keel, helping us track true in the water, the frame that holds us together when life gets rough, the internal structure that allows us to step around, dodge, even fight the evil trick of the devil.
No octopus life for us, slithering away when the devil comes calling. We must stand tall in the full armor of God. Our backbone comes from the Word we have memorized against that day of battle.
Your workout starts now. Open your Bible, choose a verse, and make it yours.
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