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9-8-2023 – A Word to the Wise – MORALE

Man can analyze the evil of the heart because it is of his own devising. He cannot replace it with good, because this is God’s, and He gives to whom he finds worthy. Those who believe in Him are the worthy.

Often, we look to others, or good circumstances to provide us with morale. However, morale is not a gift. It cannot be injected by people. It is earned by acquiring more personality assets and by learning to cope with our liabilities.

Confidence comes when we do battle and succeed. It comes when we accept the challenges of life instead of running away from them. It gains strength when we lick our wounds after a defeat and return to the fray. It goes down when we grow morbid and bathe in hostility and self-pity. It rises when we confront ourselves and accept our limitations and given potential, despite these limitations.

Morale built any other way by praise and circumstance is nothing but a pumped-up flat tire. There is no real strength of character within to hold it up. The world will not do it—and God will not let them. We must grow into it by living and being what God expects of us.