WASTEFUL BUT REMORSEFUL (2) Further to the lessons learnt from the young man generally referred to as the prodigal son yesterday, these are few others: Lesson 4) Your enemies know when their strike will be most painful for you. And that is the moment they target, the moment of your vulnerability: “But when he had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land, and he began to be in want.” (Luke 15:14 NKJV). Just look at that! Where the severe famine was when the man still had what it took to counteract it? But it waited until he was down and out of all he had. In the same vein, there are assaults and insults you won’t be suffering today if not because of what you’d lost. If you had not lost your job, if your business had not experienced a setback, if your family had not lost a breadwinner, many of the things riding over you wouldn’t have come near in the first place. Job agonizingly recounted how things used to be; before the losses he suffered: “Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God watched over me; when His lamp shone upon my head, and when by His light I walked through darkness; just as I was in the days of my prime, when the friendly counsel of God was over my tent; when the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were around me; when my steps were bathed with cream, and the rock poured out rivers of oil for me! When I went out to the gate by the city, when I took my seat in the open square, the young men saw me and hid, and the aged arose and stood; the princes refrained from talking and put their hand on their mouth; the voice of nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.” (Job 29:2-10 NKJV). He just kept on and on bemoaning! People that ordinarily couldn’t stand to him in his prime began to trample him. That’s what happens when one loses a major ground! 5) Who you join yourself with will determine if you will end up as a winner or a “swiner”. There two moments in your life that your association becomes a crucial decision, and if you fail to get it right, you may later bite your fingers: the moments of abundance and deficit, strength and weakness, gains and pains. You need the right people around you in those two moments. The young man got it wrong at both. At his peak, he flocked with harlots, and at his dip, he joined a thoughtless fellow who sent him among the swine! (Luke 15:30 & 15); making him a “swiner” instead of a winner. Look around you today and you will see many that have been made “swiners” just by their wrong choice of company. Therefore, choose your association wisely and you will win, or foolishly and you will “swine”. (To be continued tomorrow)
Posted on: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 14:49:17 +0000
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