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Has your dream or your project run into some rough patches lately? I can promise you pursuing your vision and your passion will always have times of setback and discouragement, and you will want to give up. When we experience this, we must resist this urge:
Resist the urge to quit just because it’s getting wicked hard to do something.
I don’t care how motivated you are or how passionately you are pursing something, there will come a day when you will want to quit. In the forty plus years I’ve been broadcasting this program, I’ve had those urges to run away. I think that’s what David was feeling when he wrote, “Oh, that I had the wings of a dove! I would fly away and be at rest.” It’s that common urge to just walk away. It’s hard; it’s not fun anymore; we’re running into opposition; people are criticizing us; others are not doing what they promised to do. These things start piling up and we get the urge to quit because it’s really hard.
I remember a meeting in which we discussed a new project we had started and the criticism that came as a result, and it was especially hard on the one person who had planned and led the project. She had been treated unfairly and harshly by her fellow-believers. It’s hard to believe, but it happens! And after all her hard work, this was really discouraging.
But I reminded her that we were breaking new ground and following God’s leading. I encouraged her not to even think of giving up now, and she didn’t! She did the hard stuff. God was in it, and we had to stick it out through the hard times.
The Apostle Paul had to resist this urge to quit in hard times probably more than anyone else ever has. And he wrote to the Galatians.
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up (Galatians 6:9).
Let’s covenant with God that we will resist the urge to quit just because it’s not easy!
