1 kings 19: 3 Elijah was afraid and fled for his life. He went to Beersheba, a town in Judah, and he left his servant there. 4 Then he went on alone into the wilderness, traveling all day. He sat down under a solitary broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my ancestors who have already died.”
5 Then he lay down and slept under the broom tree. But as he was sleeping, an angel touched him and told him, “Get up and eat!” 6 He looked around and there beside his head was some bread baked on hot stones and a jar of water! So he ate and drank and lay down again. 7 Then the angel of the LORD came again and touched him and said, “Get up and eat some more, or the journey ahead will be too much for you.” 8 So he got up and ate and drank, and the food gave him enough strength to travel forty days and forty nights to Mount Sinai, the mountain of God. 9 There he came to a cave, where he spent the night.
one of the things I love about God is.. He rarely tries to reason with us... He doesn't say to us that He needs us.. or that He thinks we should follow Him...
I find that He leads us day by day... when we are so tired that we cannot go on.. we tell God we are ready to quit.. maybe even to the place that we are ready to die... and He doesn't try to talk us out of being ready to quit.. at least not in the way we think.. so what He usually will do.. is lead us to tomorrow.. and then lead us into the next tomorrow... God rarely will allow someone to decide they are just done... at least this has been my experience... I have even been allowed to quit something for a season.. but it comes right back around.. full circle.. it may come in a different form.. but it is still the same battle... and He gives us another opportunity to walk through it...
God does not give us the spirit of quitting... the spirit of failure.. the spirit of defeat.. that comes from the enemy... it doesn't mean will may never feel it.. we all get tired... physically.. emotionally.. spiritually... but never do we hear God say that this is too hard for Him... it may be too hard for us.. but it is not too hard for Him.. our weakness comes when we don't lean on God to carry us through the hard parts... or when we are somewhere we never should have been to begin with... but even when we shouldn't have been there.. I think still God expects us to follow through with it.. walk the season out and learn from it... when the season is done then we are to take what we have learned in the dry season and carry it with us for the rest of our lives so that we don't end up in the same situation again...
God doesn't want us defeated... we can choose life or choose death.. in every situation... we can choose God.. or choose to live in our feelings... let us all cast off the spirit of defeat and walk in life through the power of our relationship with God...
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