DEAR LORD, I FEEL LIKE QUITTING (I)

Post date: Apr 24, 2016 11:42:54 PM

There is dissatisfaction everywhere on this earth in every profession, every workplace, and in every business be it owned by you or working for someone; no place is immune and no one is immune from the trials of life and no place is in anyway totally unique. This dissatisfaction is irrespective of wages, wealth, gender, workplace, dreams, visions, race, language, age, location and desires. The dissatisfaction varies from place to place and from person to person and the result varies. To many the dissatisfaction is very painful and glaring while others they are hidden; some speak about theirs openly while others conceal their in their heart. It is certain that no two people will be satisfied equally and no two people will be offended equally, but in your dissatisfaction, your thoughts matters and what you do matters in what you will have and expect to have. While you may be thinking the solution to those feelings of dissatisfaction is to quit, the true solution may not be quitting and may actually be inside and within you. While the thoughts and feelings are urging you to quit and seek something somewhere else, the true solution may be otherwise, and those feelings and thoughts may absolutely be wrong for your overall well-being and God's plans for you.

Though quitting may never be the solution to our needs and problems, many are still feeling the need to quit what they are doing; many are actually quitting where they are; and many more still want to quit after knowing what will happen thereafter. The question to ask is why and where are you going thereafter? What are you going to do next? What is the guarantee that the same thing that forced you to quit here will not repeat itself where you are going? Which place in life do you think you will not have that feeling of dissatisfaction? Adam and Eve never knew anything called sin in their lives before; never knew or saw anything death before; never knew or experienced any form of suffering before; never felt empty and naked before; never felt like hiding from anything or anyone before; never felt sorrowful and the need to make provisions for themselves before until the time and day Eve felt dissatisfied with keeping to the instructions of God concerning the fruit in the middle of the garden; until the day she felt the wait was too long; until the day she felt the restriction was unjustified; until she felt her obedience was not paying off; until she felt the need to satisfied her desire at the expense of the instructions of God and decided to quit her loyalty to keeping that words of instruction. The very moment she quit in her required obedience, all the things she never knew before, she never heard before, she never experience before, she never saw before started happening in her life. Even in the very best place ever that everyone will desire to be, there was dissatisfaction and the consequence of following such feelings and quitting was greater than the two of them could ever imagine.

Irrespective of the deception waiting outside to trap you; irrespective of what the people around are saying to your hearing and urging you to follow their thoughts and feeling; irrespective of the enticement and testimonies, God has a plan for you and has a better reason why He places you where you are now. Satan got Eve to quit waiting on the instructions of God through enticement; through persuasion; sweet talks she was very comfortable and willing to hear; through personal testimony of how he and others were feeling; and through friendship. “But the serpent said to the woman, you certainly will not die, for God knows that on the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened that is, you will have greater awareness, and you will be like God, knowing the difference between good and evil. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was delightful to look at, and a tree to be desired in order to make one wise and insightful, she took some of its fruit and ate it; and she also gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.” Genesis 3:4-7. When you quit God's commandments; quit the place He had kept and given to you; quit obeying and waiting on Him; quit His house and following Him; there will be consequences and He does not want you to suffer any of them. Click here to submit prayer request.