No Quit in Me

This is part of my effort to shift some worldview...

Have you ever been so tired and exhausted that you just wanted to quite? So frustrated with your “performance” as a Christian that you want to throw in the towel? So aware of the wickedness of your heart that you really question the ability of the Holy Spirit to help you “be holy as I AM holy?”

If you think about such things I would behoove you to dwell on the character of God. A God that “is Love” has not only decided to create you, but desires to be sincerely involved in your life. (1 John 4:16) So intimately and so closely…”O LORD, you have examined my heart and know everything about me... And when I wake up you are still with me!” (Psalm 139:1-18) Remember this is a God that doesn’t need anything, for “all the world is mine and everything in it.” (Psalm 50:12) He doesn’t have mixed motives. He doesn’t need you to help Him or to be his friend. Yet He chooses for whatever reasons that He may, to create us and step down from a lofty heaven to us. He chooses to, He doesn’t have a responsibility to us after the miracle work of creation. This is His personal choice.

We read “As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the Lord is flawless.” (Psalm 18:30) Here we have a perfect God that desires to be a part of our lives every second of every day, a God that has never quit on us and has put up with all of our imperfects. What should be our response to such a God? Our response should be to honor a God that hasn’t quit on us by not being discouraged by people or circumstances, by striving for perfection in thought and action, by continuing to press into Him even if we don’t feel that He is attentive, by having no quit in us.