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Faint
“If thou faint in the day of adversity,
thy strength is small” (Proverbs 24:10).
It is the hour of trial and the day of adversity that clearly shows whatever strength we really have, and what or who we are trusting in. To faint, or become disheartened then, is to show that we have not been truly counting upon God for help and deliverance. The time of difficulty and opposition will only find the trusting person more confident still, for he knows where the source of all power is to be found.
When Elijah was threatened by Jezebel he became afraid and fled for his life. “Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time. And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life” (1 Kings 19:2-3).
In contrast we read of another Old Testament man of faith, “And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God” (1 Samuel 30:6). Which are you?
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