day no. 15,537: the way the anvil breaks its hammerers

"The anvil breaks a host of hammers by quietly bearing their blows."
-- Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening

Anvils overcome hammers by enduring them. 

When you feel like you're taking a beating, remember you are breaking the enemy down by your endurance. Christ is the Rock and He outlasted His persecutors. They punched themselves out and He rose again. He took all they had to give and endured. In Him, we will see our enemies exhausted and ourselves established like an anvil, solid, resolute and blessed though buffeted. 

Romans 12:21
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

If we are in Christ, we will, like the anvil, endure many blows, but like the anvil, we will remain and our abusers will be broken.  The anvil strikes the hammer by insisting on remaining still. 

Psalm 46:8-10
Come, behold the works of the Lord,
how He has brought desolations on the earth.
He makes wars cease to the end of the earth;
He breaks the bow and shatters the spear;
He burns the chariots with fire.
“Be still, and know that I am God.
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth!”