Always Prepared

I am continuing to understand how to have victories and what failures look like and how to conquer them. Not having a consistent weekly meeting/bro time kills me. I am a creature of habit and when I get bumped out of a routine I tend to fail. That then usually leads to me going way down hill in the days to follow till I get disgusted with myself enough to change. I talk about rollercoaster rides a lot but I think I realized something about this pattern that I knew from before but didn’t/haven’t applied it as heavily as I probably should have.

I have been reading in the book of Nehemiah partly because my boss asked me if I had ever read it before and I said no. So I thought to myself the next time I picked up my bible, how about reading Nehemiah. This is a short application, but good.

Nehemiah 4:16-18

16 From that day on, half of my men did the work, while the other half were equipped with spears, shields, bows and armor. The officers posted themselves behind all the people of Judah 17 who were building the wall. Those who carried materials did their work with one hand and held a weapon in the other, 18 and each of the builders wore his sword at his side as he worked. But the man who sounded the trumpet stayed with me.

This is just a glimpse of the passage but this part is the meat of what I believe God is telling me. These people are rebuilding this wall and these other people don’t like it so much so they threaten the people that are building the wall. Then the people start working with one hand.

I got to thinking about this and there are a lot of things that are hard to do with one upper limb. These people were ready for whatever the bullies were going to throw at them. This is crazy to me because I feel like now a days if you were preparing for someone to attack you then you would have your guns stored in a secret place till you were ready to use them. Or like when you are at home you may have the gun in the closet or by the door or maybe even under the pillow. These people were so ready that they were working with one hand and carrying their weapons with the other.

I wonder if I treated my daily defense against sin what would that look like. Hmmm…