"I Quit"

Welcome! It is good to have you; you, who live with me in the land of the Quit. In this land to quit is to live...to quit is to be free...to quit is to be happy...Here, in our most precious land, to quit is the door that opens whenever life becomes uncomfortable. All hail the powerful hope of the Quit!

To all you who are weary and burdened, just quit! Is your battle with addiction too hard? Just quit. Is your marriage too ugly? Just quit. Is your job a hassle? Just quit. Is it too hard to find a job? Just quit. Is your church less than perfect? Just quit. Is parenting more work than fun? Just quit. Is dealing with your diagnosis to overwhelming? Just quit. Do healthy relationships take too much time? Just quit. Is Following Jesus too costly? Just quit. Is becoming healthy in body, mind or spirit too tiring? Just quit. Is life itself too unfair? Just quit.

All hail the Quit! Just quit whatever is hard, not fun, uncomfortable...just quit. It is our way out. It is our escape. Its our choice. If you just quit, then you won't have to deal with it any more. Pay no attention to the fact that there will always be something else to deal with waiting for you on the other side of the door called quit. That's looking too far ahead. No, no, no...just quit! No one will judge you in the land of quit for quitting. It is completely acceptable here...its expected really...its even applauded...after all, our personal comfort and happiness is the reason the world goes 'round. So go ahead...stand tall...look your struggle in the eye and tell it, "I quit!"

But for those of you who dare to commit treason in the land of the quit...to you ridiculous few who look struggle in the eye and with fire in your eye, say, "I will never, never, never quit!" To you crazy few, I give you a promise that the those who take up residence in the land of quit will kill you if you repeat it. No, for your safety, in this land, I tell you, please do not repeat it. But there is nothing they can do to you, if you simply hear it, receive it, believe it and live it. Its what the Quit does not want you to know. For if you know this, then you will not need the quit. And if you no longer need the quit, then to you it means you will have received hope that looks beyond the present struggle, you will have seen the purpose in the struggle, you will have seen One who makes every struggle worth not quitting. Hear this, you radical rebels:

⁷"But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. ⁸We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; ⁹persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. ¹⁰We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. ¹¹For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that his life may be revealed in our mortal body. ¹²So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.

¹³It is written: "I believed; therefore I have spoken."^b]">[b]With that same spirit of faith we also believe and therefore speak, ¹⁴because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you in his presence. ¹⁵All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God.

¹⁶Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. ¹⁷For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. ¹⁸So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal." 2 Corinthians 4.