The day of adversity

“If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.” - Proverbs 24v10

The greatest test of strength does not come when things are easy. Anyone can appear strong when there are no struggles. Sometimes we can coast along with only a few problems and we think that we must be doing okay. The question comes when we face adversity. How do we do when the going gets tough? What happens when the testings come?

God tells us that if we faint in the day of adversity it is proof that our strength is small. The reason is not that the strength is not available to us, but that we have misplaced strength. The problem comes when we place our confidence in our own strength. Our strength is really nothing – we are powerless in the face of the world and the opposition we face.

There is however a source of infinite strength. If this is our strength then in the day of adversity then we will never faint. What strength is that? “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”
We must learn in every situation to lean only on His strength. His strength will carry us through so that we never will faint when trouble comes.