3 INCHES OF WEAKNESS

A single viewpoint, a conjecture, a surmise, or a notion is able to turn a disciple into a drop out. Never underestimate the power of suggestibility. A solitary idea or opinion, if rehashed, reworked, and recited, will overtime come to be considered by the mind a hard fact. Your opinions are not fact but the Word of God is.


“Anyone who hears these words of mine
and puts them into practice is like
a wise man who built his house
on the rock.” Matthew 7:24

From this day forward consider your Achilles Heel. Achilles: the mighty Greek hero. Achilles: the semi immortal. Achilles: the invulnerable who took his revenge on Hector during the siege of Troy. Achilles: handsome, brave, but with three inches of weakness.

In Greek legend Achilles’ mother wished to cover her young son with immortality by dipping him in the river Styx. By the heel she held her young son upside down while she dipped him tenderly in the magic that she believed was vested in the waters of Styx. The madness of magic obeyed according to the ritual she observed. But no madness of magic touched the boy’s heel. Her hand was in the way. On the battlefield of Troy, a lucky arrow struck Achilles in the exact spot where his mother’s hand griped him the many years before. Three inches, on the young warrior’s heel, was his only weakness. No much really, a mere three inches, but three inches was enough to be a target for the killer arrow’s tip to find.

Today is a new lesson for you. The lesson asks you to consider your Achilles Heel? Where is your weak spot? Where is your three inch target? Are you safeguarding yourself against the attack of the wrong repetitious thought?


“Take up the shield of faith,
with which you can extinguish
all the flaming arrows of the evil one.”
Ephesians 6:16