Loyalty is a character issue, not a circumstance issue!

Mighty Men | The “3”

So David left Gath and escaped to the cave of Adullam. Soon his brothers and all his other relatives joined him there. Then others began coming—men who were in trouble or in debt or who were just discontented—until David was the captain of about 400 men. 1 Samuel 22:1-2 NLT

During harvest time, three of the thirty chief warriors came down to David at the cave of Adullam, while a band of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim. At that time David was in the stronghold, and the Philistine garrison was at Bethlehem. David longed for water and said, “Oh, that someone would get me a drink of water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem!” So the three mighty warriors broke through the Philistine lines, drew water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem and carried it back to David. But he refused to drink it; instead, he poured it out before the Lord. “Far be it from me, Lord, to do this!” he said. “Is it not the blood of men who went at the risk of their lives?” And David would not drink it. Such were the exploits of the three mighty warriors. 2 Samuel 23:13-17 NLT

Loyalty is a character issue, not a circumstance issue!

Never let go of loyalty and faithfulness. Tie them around your neck; write them on your heart. Proverbs 3:3 GNT

Fierce loyalty requires…

…Full Commitment

(There’s no such thing as half-hearted loyalty, it’s all or nothing)

Jesus replied, “No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service

in the kingdom of God.” Luke 9:62 NIV

…Bold Initiative

(A fiercely loyal person doesn’t sit around waiting to be told to do the right thing, they just do it)

Remember, it is sin to know what you ought to do and then not do it. James 4:17 NLT

…Great Risk

(Fierce loyalty often demands a high price, stand up, defend, sacrifice)

If you cling to your life, you will lose it; but if you give up your life for me, you will find it. Matthew 10:39 NLT

In a speech given by Theodore Roosevelt he said:

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but the one who actually strives to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; he who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

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