Cease resistance; abandon control of your life entirely, and come into complete submission to God. That’s what it means to surrender. When Y’shua returns, some of you will be like Him. And for that transformation to occur, it requires that you surrender quitting and practice perseverance.
Pray this without ceasing: “Yahweh, I surrender quitting. If life were as simple as a game, I’d be able to say, “Quitters never win, and winners never quit.” Then I’d drop the mic and walk off stage feeling pretty good about the self-help motivational speech I just delivered. But life isn’t a game, and never quitting isn’t that simple.
And to further complicate matters, walking away from the truth is attractive because walking in it often hurts so much. One choice seems to make life a whole lot more comfortable, but the cost is my life itself. The alternative is never comfortable, as if I’m caught in a trap and I must chew off my own limb to save my life. To surrender everything I can taste, see, smell, touch, and hear, for everything that has no flavor, looks like air, smells like words, feels like shadows, and sounds like silence, makes things exponentially more complicated. When the gate is narrow, and squeezing through is painful, walking away becomes easy.
Unfortunately for quitters, the requirement is to endure to the end. “You don’t also want to go away, do you?” The truth is that whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever is willing to lose his life will find it. Today, I practice perseverance. Life is the school of hard knocks, and if I graduate, my diploma will read, {My Name} has satisfactorily persevered and completed Doctorate studies in character and hope with honors! I did not succumb to, “I’ve done enough”; I did not complain that, “I’ve endured enough”; I did not announce that, “I’ve waited long enough”; and I did not walk away and proclaim, “I’m over it!” I was willing to endure and persevere through whatever it took for however long was required for God’s work to be perfected in me. I am no longer disqualified and am now equipped to enter the workforce. I know I will not be disappointed!
Whoever won’t surrender quitting and practice perseverance, simply won’t become like Him.
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