You are a parent or teacher with a child before you who is ready to give up on a particular endeavor. With what you hope is wisdom, you say, "Don't quit now!"
You are an adult with a goal (eating right, exercise, training for a better career) and you are ready to give up. Someone close to you, with what he or she hopes is wisdom, says, "Don't quit now!"
How, exactly, do you not quit?
The gap between quitters and those who keep going may be less about personal strength and more about understanding how to combat the voices of defeat.
Understand that if you are on a God-approved mission, you have two voices with which to say no to the bullying, quit-now voices: yours and God's.
When yours is weak, His is strong.
I love the saying:
How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.Certainly your goal may appear as out of reach as eating that elephant.
One day at a time, one quitter voice deflected at a time, asking God to help your voice join His voice in the fight to stay with the program.
It's all about the voices. Feeding your strength means recognizing the incredible power of your desire matched with God's authority in the matter.
Team up. The quitter voices will scatter.
