THE POWER OF CONSISTENCY
Proverbs 22: 24-29
It has been confirmed that a major pathway to distinction in life is discipline. Discipline guarantees distinction. Discipline guarantees distinction because discipline facilitates consistency, that is, consistency of the right actions. Have you noticed that after setting your alarm clock to wake up at a particular time so that you can work, after a while you would be the one to “wake up” the alarm clock? Usually it is after you have woken up and began to work, then after a while, the set alarm begins to ring.
When you maintain consistent like this, your system would be programmed to it and, after a period of time, it becomes automatic. And when you come to that realm when you no longer struggle to do things, you are in a realm of effortless and irresistible distinction. It is not what you do occasionally that changes your life; it is what you do habitually, perpetually, and perennially that changes your life and destiny.
For example, anyone can pray occasionally. Anyone can wake up in the night to study the Bible occasionally. Anyone can give occasionally. But remember that occasional actions do not change a person’s life; it is consistent action that changes a person’s life. For instance, when a man uses the axe to break a stone, he may continue hitting the stone with the axe for as many as ninety nine times, yet, the stone remains unbroken. Then at the 100th time, the stone breaks into pieces.
The question is, was it the last hit that scattered the stone? No! The stone broke as a result of the combination of several hits over time. This is what discipline does; it sustains the consistency of the right action. Beloved, never get tired of doing the right thing; the result may not come now, but victory is in consistency. Keep on doing the right thing habitually, consistently and permanently. Sooner than later, the results will show.
PRAYER: Lord, I receive the baptism of consistency. Help me never to get tired in doing the right thing in Jesus name.
