Chap 2

Beware of no man more than yourself;
we carry our worst enemies within us.
-Charles Haddon Spurgeon-

this saying was in chapter 2 of Finishing Strong by Steve Farrar. and i read this sometime ago.

it talked about men in the Bible who (in 4 categories) were cut off early, finished poor, finished so-so and finished strong.

it talked about 3 ambushes:-
- ambush of another woman
- ambush of money
- ambush of a neglected family

for all Christian men are not safe from any of them.

i took a look at it and thought, that's kind of not relevant to me at the moment. but another reading elsewhere talked about planting seeds. we always hear of good seeds being planted and the joy of reaping the harvests.
so exists also, the bad seeds, that will cause destruction as it ripens. it is something we don't want to reap, but we cannot stop it ripening within us.
given the necessary circumstances, you're finished. the full juice of the fruit will capture you.

that's where i thought again. okayyy... i'm still a student. its not that difficult, for now. but in the future working world, i'll face it.
and how am i to prepare after learning this? well, i can prepare myself by being careful and taking FULL notice of every seed that i plant, knowingly and unknowingly.

one example mentioned was when a Christian leader or a pastor falls into sexual temptation. who would expect that such a person would fall and so sudden?
they didnt fall into it, because of a one shot thing where it comes big and full blown in the face. surely they'd say no.

but satan knows and he plants seeds. the defenses are broken down day by day (he has our lifetime on earth), bit by bit. and when it ripens, there's the fall. the defenses are too small and weak to take the full blown force.