Daily Devotion

 With Pastor Ancel Presnell

“AN EPIDEMIC OF QUITTING”

Never in the history of our nation have we seen quitting at epidemic levels like we do today. We’ve become a people with no loyalty and no stick-to-itiveness. If you don’t like a job, you quit. If you want out of your marriage, you quit. If parenting gets too tough, you bail out. If your kid breaks a sweat in a sport, you let them quit. This sad mentality has bled from the White House right down to our house, and tragically, it’s poured right over into the church house. We’ve got epidemic levels of Christians quitting ministry, quitting the church, and quitting the faith walk altogether.

This mass exodus, this inability to stick with anything, comes from a severe lack of vision. Too many people are running their lives aimlessly, consumed by the now with no eye on the eternal prize. Everything is about immediate gratification and temporary, short-lived value. Ask yourself right now: Why are you in the race? Are you just sitting down in your portable recliner with a Big Pal and fries while others are running their heart out? Are you pouring your life into wood, hay, and stubble—the material possessions that rust and decay, or the money that never brings contentment?

Paul, talking to the Corinthians who knew all about the Games, compared the Christian life to a grueling, full-out race. Those athletes trained for months for a prize that was nothing more than a dried-up ivy wreath—a corruptible crown. If they put that much devotion into winning something that would rot away, how much more should we dedicate our lives to winning the prize that is incorruptible? We must be faithfully pursuing that eternal reward, running the entire race with our eyes fixed on the finish line.

1 Corinthians 9:25– “And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.”