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Attrition warfare is a military tactic that focuses on wearing down the opponent until they are forced to surrender. Your enemy is skilled in attrition warfare. Nothing can deplete your strength quite like continual, regular blows. What is the best way to keep your strength? Guard it.

The truth is we tend to guard the things we value. You guard your car by locking it every time you leave. You guard your bank account by keeping it password secure. Do you have a plan for guarding your strength?

This proverb gives us a powerful defense strategy: discretion and understanding. The duo is both an application of wisdom. If you read back through Proverbs 2, it is filled with promises about how wisdom guards our life. The Enemy wants you worn out, tired, and depleted. God has plans to fill you with strength, so apply wisdom in every situation and guard your strength.

Lord, I pray for wisdom. Teach me to apply Your wisdom in my life. Thank You for your promise that discretion and understanding will protect my strength. I ask for protection against the plans of the enemy. Keep me in Your strength. Amen.