Proverbs 21:5: “The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.”
My friend has been Mayor of his Texas town for 19 years. He is running because he has an opponent. The strange thing is this opponent has never served before. Well, I guess that is okay, but he has never attended meetings or done anything for the city. It reminds me of the joke I used to tell about how I tried to join the army, but it turned out they don’t need any more Generals right now. Don’t be that way. “Hasty comes only to poverty.”
Remember the story of David and the Giant. He told King Saul that he would fight the giant. Saul’s response was, “You are not able to go out against this Philistine and fight him; you are only a boy, and he has been a fighting man from his youth.” (1 Samuel 17:33)
I might have agreed, but David had a ready response.
“Your servant was tending his father’s sheep. When a lion or a bear came and took a lamb from the flock, I went out after him and attacked him, and rescued it from his mouth; and when he rose up against me, I seized him by his beard and struck him and killed him.” (34-35)
David believed that he could kill the giant because, with God’s help, he had already killed a bear and a lion. There is a great principle here – one victory grows to another.
Before you can kill a giant, kill a bear. Before you kill a bear, kill a wolf. Before you kill a wolf, kill a mouse. If you cannot kill a mouse, you are not ready to fight a giant. Victories grow little by little.
Learn to win the little victories, and then when a big battle confronts you, you will be ready. When you get ready, God will be waiting for you.
I’m Lonnie Davis,
These are thoughts worth thinking.