Once upon a time the devil decided to go out of business; He offered all his tool for sale. He attractively displayed the whole bad-looking lot: Malice, Hatred, Envy, and Jealousy… Each was marked with a price tag.
Apart from them lay a harmless-looking wedge-shaped tool, every much worn out, but priced higher than any of the others. Someone asked the devil what tool that was.
“That’s discouragement,” he replied,
“But why is priced so high?”
“Because, “answered the devil, “discouragement is more useful to me than all the others.
With discouragement I can pry open and get inside a person’s conscience, when I cannot get near him with any other tools. And once I’m inside his conscience, I can use him in any way that suits me best. It is so much worn because I can use it with nearly anybody, since very few people know that it belongs to me.”
A person is never weaker than when he or she is fed-up, is down-in-the-dumps. He or she couldn’t care less about anything… and then anything can happen --- and usually does.
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