Progressively Getting Weaker…

Straight to the point on this one. Strong men don’t become weak in a single day. The things that eventually undo a man are sown quietly as seeds and watered daily through repeated exposure until they grow beyond his ability to resist.

The fall often begins with a first subtle and harmless introduction. Then a second. Then a third. Each encounter seems insignificant on its own, yet with every repetition, something within is gradually weakened.

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It is like a rock being worn down by persistent drops.

The force of a single drop is negligible; it appears incapable of causing any damage.

The rock withstands the first strike without visible effect. It withstands the second, the third, and the fourth. Yet, over time, what seemed inconsequential becomes decisive. The steady impact produces a final moment where the rock, once unyielding, finally gives way.

So it is with the human soul.

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A man is often not as strong as he assumes, especially in the face of repeated exposure.

Whatever you continually expose yourself to, you slowly give power over yourself. The more you expose yourself to those things, you weaken your capacity to resist the temptation to be overcome by them.

The more a man yields himself to lustful content or environments, the more he erodes his capacity to resist the pull of lust and the enticement into sin. What once seemed resistible gradually becomes desirable, then normal, and eventually overpowering. In this way, many unknowingly prepare the ground for their own downfall.

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What appears as a sudden fall is often the culmination of many quiet compromises.

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The exhortation that says “Let him who thinks he stands take heed, lest he fall” is not to suggest that the New Testament believer lacks strength.

It is a recognition that the believer is only as strong as the boundaries and the watches he establishes and maintains around himself.

Strength, in the life of the believer is received, cultivated and preserved by structures.

Those structures:

1. consistently remind him of the righteous nature he has received and the weighty implications of receiving it;

2. keep before him the outward expressions that are native to the divine life now present within him

3. include intentional, deliberate systems that ensure the old man finds no form of expression in him.

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True Christian strength, therefore, is in the discipline of guarding one’s exposures, the consistency of renewing one’s mind, and the deliberate refusal to give the old nature any room for expression.

Selah

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