It is better to have strength that you don't need than to need strength that you don't have. A warrior has more time to learn gardening than a gardener does to learn war.
"The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war." -- Sun Tzu
You cannot be strong now without working towards strength before. And the more you work when strength isn't needed, the less work it will be to be strong when it is. Inviting the right kind of trouble into your life now helps you avoid the wrong kind inviting itself over later. To take up the weights when you don't have to is to make for yourself less weight when you will.
You will not rise at any given moment if you are in the habit of staying down. We rise to our level of training.
Matthew 25:1-13
Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. As the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept. But at midnight there was a cry, "Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him." Then all those virgins rose and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said to the wise, "Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out." But the wise answered, saying, "Since there will not be enough for us and for you, go rather to the dealers and buy for yourselves." And while they were going to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut. Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, "Lord, lord, open to us." But he answered, "Truly, I say to you, I do not know you." Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.
It is better to be a virgin with oil and waiting inside than a virgin without oil waiting outside.
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