The baby had tried everything to break free. It had strained with all its might, pulling in every conceivable way, hour after hour, day after day. The huge stake refused to budge. So, rather than mindlessly keep trying to do the impossible, it did what at the time was the intelligent thing: it gave up trying.

The baby grew into a powerful beast. Convinced by bitter experience that whenever it is tethered there is no point trying to resist, it never bothered to determine whether anything had changed. So it suffers indignities, even though, if only it could grasp the fact, it could easily rip up the peg and trample those who sought to dominate it.

Past defeats do not lock us into lifelong defeat. With Almighty God, we can always break through. Like elephants that grow to have superhuman strength, Christians are born again with superhuman strength. Resident within them is not only divine power, but God himself. But as with the ‘trained’ elephant, great power will not help us unless we exert our most determined effort to resist whatever seeks to dominate us. If we don’t bother to try our hardest because we believe that within us is little more than human frailty, we’ll remain humiliated, languishing under the misconception that we are still as powerless as we were in our pre-Christian days.

Taken from Why Bad Things Keep Happening to Some People

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