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Theme of the Week: Strategic Struggle
Zig Ziglar
Monday, August 9, 2004
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Key Bible Verse: We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know … they help us learn to endure (Romans 5:3). Bonus Reading:Romans 5:4—5
When the weather doesn't suit us, we are inclined to say we wish we could make it rain or stop raining, that the wind would blow more or less, that it would turn cooler or warmer. And very few people go around asking for trouble. We certainly don't ask God to give us problems since life's so easy and we need a challenge. However, maybe we should.
Thomas Wylie wrote me about visiting Biosphere Two, the man-made habitat experiment, near Tucson, Arizona. During the tour the guide explained that an oversight of the designers was their failure to create wind within the structure. With no wind to blow them back and forth, the trees would grow to a certain height and then topple over from their own weight. Lack of wind resulted in the trees not having a deeply extended root system.
Wylie then stated that this made him realize that without the winds of adversity, we can't grow and become the people God designed us to be without toppling over. I agree. You can't raise champions on a feather bed. The percentage of people who overcome adversity to go to great heights is legendary. Adversity develops character.
—Zig Ziglar in Staying Up, Up, Up in a Down, Down World
Adapted from Staying Up, Up, Up in a Down, Down World (Nelson, 2000) by permission.
My Response: A problem I need to stop evading and face squarely is …
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