Throw in the towel. Say you can’t go any further. It’s too difficult for me. I don’t have the energy. All of these are signals and statements of giving up.
Have you been faced with a challenge or situation that gave you this deep pit of the stomach feeling that you could not go any further and you can’t accomplish your goal?
Some of us are built with this inate fighting spirit to go all the way to the end or going down on our own sword even in defeat. What that usually accomplishes is success, at least in some sorts, that otherwise we would not have obtained. Buy this never ending desire to go on, we endure and migrate through various obstacles that make our fighting spirit even stronger.
When it comes to our faith , we need that same fighting spirit. We know that we will face challenges and difficulties in this world. The Bible tells us that Satan can pull us through his snares and temptations and away from our focus as a Christian. The apostle Paul seems to have had this same kind of fighting spirit as well.
2 Corinthians 12:5:..7–I will not boast about myself, except about my weaknesses. Even if I should choose to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will think more of me than is warranted by what I do or say, or because of these surpassingly great revelations. Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.
Think about Paul’s desire and fighting spirit to serve his Lord and God but at the same time, the torment he was under. Did he say quit? No, he keep the faith and preserved through it all. This is how we must fight onward in our daily struggles and see it through to the end even when we want so much to quit.
Another of Paul’s words for us and to keep our focus in front of us is found in Philippians 1:21-26: For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. If I am to go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me. Yet what shall I choose? I do not know! I am torn between the two: I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far; but it is more necessary for you that I remain in the body. Convinced of this, I know that I will remain, and I will continue with all of you for your progress and joy in the faith, so that through my being with you again your boasting in Christ Jesus will abound on account of me.
Let’s stay focused ou our ultimate goal!!
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