GUEST MEDITATION

By Rev. Wendell Lamb, Guest Correspondent
Published: July 25, 2008

“If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small,” Proverbs 24:10, The Christian life is a life of conflict. The world, the flesh, and the devil are adversaries. The Christian must be prepared for the “day of adversity.” Job had such a day when God allowed Satan to come against all that he had, but God would not allow him to take Job’s life. Peter had such a day when our Lord allowed Satan to “sift him as wheat.” Queen Esther had such a day when the life of her people hinged upon her stand. She said, “If I perish, I perish” and she did not “faint.”
The fainting of a Christian in the day of adversity is because his or her “strength is small.” This “strength” is not a physical strength; but rather, it is a reference to spiritual fortitude. Now the way we derive spiritual strength for battle is found in the command that God gave to Joshua. Joshua was going to face opposition far greater than he could overcome in his own strength, but God would provide Joshua’s needed strength through a book. God said to Joshua, “This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success,” Joshua 1:8. Now, if we too are drawing our strength from God’s Book, we will not faint in the day of our adversity.