Christianity is in the not giving up…

Humans are quitters. Eventually we quit everything on this side (except sin). We get bored, we grow weary. We aren’t robots that move mechanically with little maintenance (though sometimes I feel that way, especially pre-coffee am). We are so incredibly responsive as beings that generally, our emotions take us to the end of the rope and we look for an out. Life is hard. But we are also incredibly resilient too. So we can press through and do, a lot of times, mostly when convictions press us to determined ends. The more I walk a life of faith the more I come to realize that this life is impossible on our own strength, obviously. Which leads to the simple yet profound truth that if we don’t quit, even unto death, then we win. We hold fast to the name of Jesus, day in and day out, up and down, this way and that way until eventually, we die or are martyred……and we win. Sound bleak?? Maybe it is but it is worth every moment if you believe the promises of the Bible, which of course you have to believe them if you’ve started on this journey in the first place. God motivates us to not quit by giving us precious promises. Think if we didn’t have Revelation 21 and 22 to fuel our going forward. Would we even be able to go forward. What promises fuel you? They have to be eternal promises if they are worth being fueled by, or else that fuel will run dry and your tank will be empty. We need living fuel to keep going. So don’t give up, find your fuel. A little hint; it’s Jesus.

“But whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.” John 4:14