"Duty... makes you strong enough to know when you are weak, and brave enough to face yourself when you are afraid." -- General Douglas MacArthur from Duty, Honor, Country
Duty calls out cowardice and draws out courage.
Duty reveals your weakness. It is a duty because you were not going to just do it anyways. You had to be told. You needed the weight of responsibility to press upon your will.
Oswald Chambers is on point in saying, "Unguarded strength is double weakness." Strength in the wrong direction is weakness in every direction. Duty shows you your weakness so that you can be strong in acknowledging it. Acknowledged weakness is a strength. Duty shows you your weakness so that you can be stronger in having seen it.
Duty also creates courage. It gives you a reason to face yourself down when you’re tempted to face down. When you are tempted to step aside or look away, your duty calls you to step up and to look your fears in the face. Duty brings boldness out of cowardice. Duty beckons bravery out of brooding.
Duty requires you to be on guard where you've been sleeping, to be enough where you know you aren't, and to become more by confessing you're less.
Duty also creates courage. It gives you a reason to face yourself down when you’re tempted to face down. When you are tempted to step aside or look away, your duty calls you to step up and to look your fears in the face. Duty brings boldness out of cowardice. Duty beckons bravery out of brooding.
Duty requires you to be on guard where you've been sleeping, to be enough where you know you aren't, and to become more by confessing you're less.
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