Might of Heart and Might of Deeds

par Theodore Andoseh

There are books that inform, and there are books that expose. This one exposes. Anyone can measure mighty deeds: examinations passed, souls won, projects completed, battles never lost. Joab’s record could stand beside anyone’s — commander-in-chief by accomplishment, strategist without equal, the general of an army that did not lose. If accomplishment were the whole of a servant of God, Joab would be a model . Yet the Bible lets us watch him for forty-five years, until the day the colour of his heart stood up in public and took the wrong side, and he finished a lifetime of service in shame. And beside him, all along, was his elder brother. Abishai had everything Joab had — the giant-killer’s spear, the hand-to-hand valour, the genius for leading troops — and one thing more: a heart. The faith that follows a leader into peril. The submission that bridles enormous capacity. The maternal eye that watches over another in the middle of a battle. The usefulness that never once asked for a post, because love is already a post. The teacher of this course sets the two portraits side by side, before children — and refuses to let any of us remain a spectator. What flows in your family? Do things work in your hands? What moves you: greatness, or love? Would your leader call you a co-worker, or one of his men? These pages ask the questions in the same voice in which they were first asked at Ndoumbi, and they leave every reader with the question of the whole course: Joab had only one; Abishai had the two. What will you be? I commend this book to parents and children, to ministers and those they lead, and to every servant of God who has begun to build mighty deeds and senses the danger of carrying them with an unbuilt heart. Read it slowly. Pray where it prays. And ask God for the might that pleases Him — the might of heart.

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