TESTS ON OUR BALANCE

Adversity or prosperity, both are tough tests on our balance.

To stay balanced through adversity, resiliency is required. But to stay balanced through prosperity, that demands integrity. The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.

That is why walking on a wire is harder than standing up in a storm. Height has a strange way of disturbing balance.

King David found it easier to be resilient on the battlefield than to have the integrity to defeat temptation in the palace.