You Don’t Have To Quit

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Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. --2 Corinthians 9:7 There was a man who was telling a deacon of his church one day, “The church just costs too much! We have these nice facilities, a pastoral staff, and are always doing things for the community. Why do we have to spend so much money?” So the deacon said to him, “Let me tell you a little story. A number of years ago, a little boy was born into our home, and that child began to cost us. There were diapers, food, and all of the costs that come with a little baby. And as he grew, there were sports fees and activity fees. When he became a teenager, he began to eat us out of house and home. Then he decided he wanted to go to college, and we were poor for four more years.” But he said, “His senior year at college, our son was killed in an automobile crash. And since then, he hasn’t cost us a dime.” The deacon’s point was this: Anything that is alive will cost. And if the Church is to be a living and viable influence in the world, it must have the resources it needs to do so. So support your local church financially as a living, breathing organism, so that it can make a real impact in the world! CONTRIBUTE FINANCIALLY TO YOUR LOCAL CHURCH AND HELP IT MAKE A LIVING IMPACT FOR JESUS CHRIST! You Don’t Have To Quit Monday, March 02, 2020 by Dr. Paul Chappell “And he said unto them, What have I done now in comparison of you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer? God hath delivered into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb: and what was I able to do in comparison of you? Then their anger was abated toward him, when he had said that. And Gideon came to Jordan, and passed over, he, and the three hundred men that were with him, faint, yet pursuing them.” Judges 8:2–4 Robert Louis Stevenson was often sick as a child. Lung diseases ran in his family, and Stevenson was no exception. Frequently ill (several times almost dying) Stevenson nevertheless continued to write. When he lost the use of his right hand, Stevenson taught himself to use his left and kept on with his work. Later, when he could no longer write at all, he dictated his stories. He refused to let anything stop him. In a letter to a friend Stevenson wrote, “I have written in bed, and written out of it, written in hemorrhages, written in sickness, written torn by coughing, written when my head swam for weakness.” That refusal to quit is how Robert Louis Stevenson was able to produce so many books in just forty-four years of his short life. If we are looking for reasons to quit, we can always find them. Gideon could have contented himself with the great initial victory God gave his three hundred courageous warriors. Instead, he chased the Midianites all the way across the Jordan River and out of the country. He faced opposition and criticism from some of his own countrymen, but he continued. He grew weary and faint, but he kept on pursing. The greatest victories are not won by those with the most talent or the most ability, but by those who simply will not stop until the final victory is won. Today's Growth Principle: Life can make us tired, but it cannot make us quit unless we let it.