Christian author Jill Briscoe tells of going into a child’s room once and seeing a poster on the wall showing a little boy after a football match. At the top it said, “I quit.” And the little boy's body language was saying it all, sitting dejected and alone on the bench. But on the bottom of the poster was a cross and in little letters it said, “I didn’t.”
When I feel like quitting, I imagine Jesus saying, “Well, I didn’t.” One of the marks of a disciple of Jesus is that they don’t quit. As the devout Anglican writer Samuel Johnson once said, “Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.”
The scriptures say, “Be thou faithful unto death and I will give you a crown of life.” We are not told to be faithful until we are tired … or until we are retired … but until we are expired. So don’t quit.