Ok, here's the situation--- Your faith is all but gone, your depressed, dejected, in despair, don't know where to go, what to do, who to turn to, if you can turn to anybody, if they'll really be able to help you anyway if you do, you've had it with your faith and with God, and you're at the end of your rope. You're hurt so bad that you don't even care any more. And all you want to do is quit. At this point, someone might come up and try to tell you that quitting is just never the answer, and "things will get better somehow", and that "quitting is never the answer." If that's the case then how come everything in you is screaming "Quit! Stop!! It's killing me!!" ?? It's because the things that have driven you to this point need to be stopped and quit. Quitting IS the answer, but quitting the correct things. The desire to quit inside of you is legitimate. Only you need to know what it is that truly needs to be quit. What truly needs to be quit is all of the fear and the striving and the performance and the things that are driving you up the wall. The attitudes that show no trust and produce no love. And the only reason He hasn't showed up so far is because He doesn't want you to think that all of your fearful, striving, performance based efforts are what are going to endear you to Him. You should not ignore your real emotions. Only you don't have to respond to them the ways that the world always says to respond to them. (Giving up, quitting, etc.) You just need to be honest about them and then see what you can REALLY do to change them. And here is my suggestion. Instead of quitting, trust.

See, you have wrong ideas about God. You think that He is waiting for you to get your act together before He'll take care of you. You don't know that you can stop everything you are doing and He'll carry you. He really will. You just don't know it because you've never experienced it before. Talk about faith. Talk about taking a chance. Talk about stepping off of the ledge when you see no plank there. Your pastors and leaders have always espoused the merits of this kind of thing, so why not do it for real, and see if He doesn't catch you? Cause it's a lot better than walking away from Him. There is an alternative to quitting your faith and quitting on God. It's called quitting your striving and your efforts born of fear and performance, and trusting that He really can be God in your life. Let go and let God.

See, you certainly can quit. Your heart is telling you the truth when it wants to quit. Just quit the right things!!

Saying no to God

Ever wonder if you could say no to God? Ever wonder if He'd get mad at you if you did?

Here's a thought. I believe He does give us the freedom to say no to Him. And it's precisely this freedom to say no to Him that produces the desire inside of me to say yes.

Just a thought.