What you don’t use, you lose.

I have seen people, who were extraordinary public speakers, struggle to stamp the same mark on the dais a few years later, for they’ve lost touch with public speaking. I have seen well-educated women, who after having become homemakers confined themselves to the four walls, struggle with their fluency in communication. I have seen outstanding singers unable to achieve the level of performance they are capable of, for they have stopped practicing.

Why is it that I am not able to exert my left hand as much as my right hand? Simple, I have put my right hand to greater use than my left hand. You develop the muscles you use and lose the ones you don’t use. Most cardiac problems are the result and effect of the heart not being made to work to its maximum capacity. The heart that is made to work keeps working. So is the case with every part of your body… The human body is designed to wear out over a lifetime, but we shrink this lifetime by allowing the body to rust.

If you don’t use it, you lose it.

Unused money devalues. Unused talent diminishes. Unused potential decays. Unused machinery gets rusted. Unused time dies. Unused knowledge becomes a burden. What isn’t used is abused.

It reminds me of the biblical parable of talents, where the master, before going on a journey, called his three servants and entrusted them with different talents, On the return of the master, the first servant said he had added five more talents to the five entrusted. The second servant said he had added two more talents to the two entrusted. The master was pleased and he told both of them, “You were faithful with a few things. So, I will put you in charge of many things.’ The third servant returned the only talent entrusted without using it, and the master said, ‘Take away the talent from him and give it to the one who has ten talents.

Matthew 25:29 states, “For, to everyone who has shall more be given, and he shall have abundance; but from the one who does not have, even what he does have shall be taken away.”

The tragedy of life isn’t the ultimate death, but the resources that die within you when you are still alive.Let us not die while we are still breathing.

Use it or you will lose it.