Wednesday, August 3, 2011

WHEN YOU WANT TO QUIT

Have you ever wanted to call it quits? We all have – every single one of us has gone through a time when giving up seemed like the best and the most promising option.

It happens when the crushing demand of others’ expectations suppress our spirits, coupled with our own sense of inadequacy and it all comes spiraling down … and the words “I quit” seem as the natural next step. When you are ready to call it quits, Jesus shows up, mark my words; He shows up and closer to you than you can imagine.

Your eyes may not recognize Him at first, but He is there. If you will listen, His voice will cut through your spirit, but you will have to incline your ear for you could easily ignore His voice; you can even deny His voice but when you are lost, He will show you the way out to follow. When you are ready to call it quits, Jesus will speak to you and more accurately He will speak to the spirit of defeat you have allowed to take preeminence within you.

Sometimes, God has to bring us back to our original call as he did to Peter in Luke 5:10 by cutting everything else out. You do not realize that Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you have and if we should realize that, He lovingly cuts everything out in order to bring us back to that assurance of being there for us.
God will always provide all the Grace we will need for the assignment He has called us to do. When we move outside of God’s Grace, we choose to move toward discouragement, bitterness and depression. When you are ready to call it quits that is a warning light that you have been adrift.
In situation like this, run toward God not away from Him. It is a natural tendency for us to run away when we have sold out and find ourselves at the end of a bad decision and its terrible consequences then you are ready to call it quits. Note that you will not know what to do, so do not try to figure it out. You may not be in the position to hear, but you are in a position to heal. But first you must do one thing: cry out to God; let it all go, give it over to God.
There are times in our lives when, like Elijah in 1Kings 19, we want to call it quits. Listening to the still small voice and moving forward in faith is all we need to move on because quitting is not God’s best for our life.

My encouragement is we should entrust our future to Jesus. We should not call it quits and we should not try to do it on our own. Simply surrender to Him; when you want to call it quits, discover the life-saving power of Jesus and reflect on Methodist Hymnal 538

1.      What a Friend we have in Jesus,
  All our sins and grief to bear!
What a privilege to carry
  Everything to God in prayer!
O what peace we often forfeit,
  O what needless pain we bear,
All because we do not carry
  Everything to God in prayer!

2.      Have we trials and temptations?
  Is there trouble anywhere?
We should never be discouraged,
  Take it to the Lord in prayer.
Can we find a friend so faithful
  Who will all our sorrows share?
Jesus knows our every weakness,
  Take it to the Lord in prayer.

3.       Are we weak and heavy-laden,
  Cumbered with a load of care?
Precious Savior, still our refuge—
  Take it to the Lord in prayer;
Do thy friends despise, forsake thee?
  Take it to the Lord in prayer;
In His arms He'll take and shield thee,
  Thou wilt find a solace there.


I love you all but Jesus loves you best.

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