Wimpiness breeds in ease and comfort and when sudden hardship comes we find ourselves whimpering like little babies. The storms of evil are attacking marriages and families and because we have no heart to fight, we are falling like dominoes one after the other.

Where is the fighting spirit that says, “Enough is enough"? Do you remember Phinehas? He rose up from among the congregation, took a javelin in his hand and thrust it right through the two bellies of the unfaithful adulterers. He was saying, “Enough is enough! It’s time to go to war and attack this blatant enemy who has the audacity to do this wickedness right in the sight of Moses and the weeping children of Israel.” (Read Numbers 25:6-13)

The enemy is devastating the church today. This attack on marriage and morality is no longer in some far remote corner of the kingdom but right before our eyes - and even in the pulpit. There is hardly a family in this nation that has not been devastated by this enemy in some way. It is time to go to war against these spiritual forces that make such mockery of our testimony and give the heathen the opportunity to blaspheme the name of God. “Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? Let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed." (Psalm 79:9-10)

The enemy has depleted our ranks with his arrows of deception. We have lost the vision for raising the godly seed. Like Samson, he has blinded our eyes and we are reduced to going round and round in confusion, blubbering over our broken homes and marriages. (Judges 16:21)

“Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? Or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?” (Psalm 94:16) Where are the real men? Where are the men who will cast off wimpiness and stand up and say, “Enough is enough”?

In this 20-point series, I want to deal with this weak, spineless, gutless, fearful, do-nothing spirit called “the wimp.”

What is a wimp?

POINT NO. 1 – THE WIMP BUCKLES UNDER PRESSURE.

He gives in easily. He throws in the towel.

Psalm 78:9 tells us about the children of Ephraim who “being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.” The reason for this wimpiness was because they were a “stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast with God. They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in His law. And forgot his works and His wonders that He had showed them.” (Psalm 78:8-11) Even though they were well equipped with weapons of war, their godlessness allowed a knee buckling, trembling, jittering spirit to attack them, causing them to turn their wimpy backs to the enemy and flee. They had never learned to really seek God. They had forgotten that you couldn’t fight in the battles of the Lord with only human strength.

The armies of Saul ran like scared rabbits before Goliath, but David had a different spirit. “Who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?” he cries out. (1 Samuel 17:24-26)

A wimpy spirit hit the children of Israel after the spies returned from spying Canaan, but Caleb had a different spirit. God said, “But my servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit in him and has followed me fully, I will bring into the land where he went, and his descendants shall inherit it.” (Numbers 13:31-33; 14:24)

After his conversion to Christ, C. T. Studd, the famous English cricketer pioneered the gospel to China and founded the China Inland Mission. After many years of battling the spiritual darkness in China, when others went home at retiring age, he continued to blaze a trail in Africa, just like David Lingstone. In his powerful writings, he blasts the wimpy spirit of his generation. You can feel his spirit as he writes:

Lord, send us lion-hearted men

With good courageous habits

Who ne’er will run from the devil’s gun

Like hares and bunny rabbits!

For genuine soldiers are heroes

“Chocolate soldiers” are shams

The soldiers of Jesus are lions

Not hares or timid lambs.

C. T. Studd in his message on the Chocolate Soldier reminds us how chocolate melts when the heat comes on.

Enough is enough! We must get this wimpy, delicate, chocolate spirit out of us right now. We must replace it with heavy doses of the Word of God and prayer.

Paul encourages us in Ephesians 6:10-18 to “Be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil…” He urges us to “Withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand”, not “having done all to turn your back and flee!”

It is high time for us to get really desperate with God. How about putting into your life a strong regime of fasting and prayer – let’s say one or two days per week. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Truly we need this kind of training for what we face today and in the future. Of course, we should pray everyday but fasting is mentioned in the Bible one third as many times as prayer. This speaks for itself and quickly sorts out the real men from the boys.

Get ready for the next episode on overcoming wimpiness.

DON’T BE A WIMP

When the pace seems slow

And few there be to care or know

That the world’s crept in the doors

And slackened every godly cause

When folks no longer want to pray

And seek the Lord to know His way

For sloth and ease have broken in

And robbed the church of the power to win

Then do not let this crippling sin

Take hold of you and lock you in.

Buckle up as ne’er before,

Take hold of heaven and knock its door.

Smash every tendency to be

Like others around who cannot see.

When the tempting battle gets to boilin’

Treat the world as deadly poison!

No matter how many may be your foes

They will never stand your knockout blows.

When all around are misbehaving,

Sound the trumpet with banners waving.

Though the world and devils around may scoff

Just lift up your sword and write them off.

There’s no time left messing about,

Tell the lazy ones, “Stop being a lout!”

For there will be a sure reward

For those who diligently seek the Lord.

It’s true you see, the surest way to victory

Is always on the bended knee.

Colin Campbell

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