Author: Isaiah-Phillips Akintola

When a person’s internal system is weak or compromised, no amount of external structure can hold or compensate indefinitely. They may perform admirably for a season, perhaps even for years, but the lack of internal strength means their functionality depends entirely on favorable external conditions. When pressure increases, when temptation intensifies, when suffering arrives, the facade crumbles because there was no internal, well-built architecture to sustain it. The house is bult on a sinking sand. All external manifestations of systemic breakdown are merely symptoms, visible evidence of an internal collapse that precedes and produces the visible chaos. The collapsed bridge is a symptom of compromised engineering standards, which itself is a symptom of institutional corruption, which itself is a symptom of individuals whose internal moral and spiritual systems have failed. The chain of causation always leads back to the construct or deconstruct of the human heart.