Preparation. A. W. Tozer says preparation is the key to battlefield success because “battles are always won before the armies take the field.”
“The critical moment for any army is not the day it engages the foe in actual combat; it is the day before or the month before or the year before….
“Preparation is vital. The rule is, prepare or fail. Luck and bluster will do for a while, but the law will catch up with us sooner or later, usually sooner….
“It did not take Moses long to lead the children of Israel out through the Red Sea to deliverance and freedom; but his fittedness to lead them out was the result of years of hard discipline.
“It took David only a few minutes to dispose of Goliath; but he had beaten the giant long before in the person of the lion and the bear….
“Preparation is vital. Let this be noted by everyone. We can seek God today and get prepared to meet temptation tomorrow; but if we meet the enemy without first having met God, the outcome is not conjectural; the issue is already decided. We can only lose.” *
For each of us, tomorrow is unknown. Knowing our foe, he will most assuredly mount an attack. We must, therefore, seize today as opportunity to prepare for that assault.
Blessings as you prepare for your battles,
*A. W. Tozer, selections from The Next Chapter After the Last, pp. 77-79.
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