THE POWER OF ''DISCIPLINE''.

JUST THINKING:

To achieve anything in life, one needs discipline. Being a father, a mother, a child, a student, a professional and so on requires discipline to achieve your goal, desire and even play your role in life. It makes you achieve a lot but it also sharpens your life.
By the way, a discipline is a form of training that helps one to obey rules and code of behaviour. It is the training that makes you build muscles, capacity, gain knowledge, understand process flow, ask questions, obey rules and do the right things at all times. When one becomes trained by discipline, his thinking pattern, mentality and the way he sees things changes.
Without discipline, things will not be done orderly, there will be half-baked professionals, goals set may not be achieved and there will be chaos in the society. Discipline is a process which helps you learn new things and makes you unlearn the wrong things. When you have a vision and a goal, discipline will help you achieve it.
Joshua 6: 10 NKJV says, ‘’Now Joshua had commanded the people, saying, “You shall not shout or make any noise with your voice, nor shall a word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I say to you, ‘Shout!’ Then you shall shout.”
In the above scripture from the book of Joshua chapter 6, we can see the power of discipline and what it can do. Joshua through the command of God told the Israelites that they should go round Jericho once every day for six days and on the seventh day, they should go round it without shouting, making a noise with their voice and without a word coming out of their mouth. In other words, they should not speak to each other and say anything in the cause of carrying out the command. I will say that that was the height of discipline.
Imagine having a jester, a comedian and a loquacious person amongst them for the whole time they carried out the command. Imagine if any one was tired or hungry, he could not say it out. Also, if one had his brother or maybe wife or child with him, the child or person must not say a word to his father or brother. I can’t imagine a people going to war without saying a word to each other or walking around a city for a long time and doing it every day without saying a word to the person(s) around them the whole time. But guess what, the Israelites did it and the rest is history.
The truth is that apart from the power of God, what actually made the wall of Jericho come down was the discipline on the parts of the Israelites who refused to speak to each other because of the command of the lord and because of their goal. This shows that if you set or have a goal, discipline is one of the major factors that can help you achieve it. You can only become discipline through daily training and with time, that thing you do daily will become a part of your lifestyle.