I Quit

I QUIT...

I think the word quitting has a bad rap, but sometimes its good to quit.  Sometimes admitting defeat and failure is the most liberating thing, to come to the end of yourself and realize, you just couldn't do it all.  Sometimes, realizing you have nothing left to give, is where the real freedom begins. 

For anyone like me who tries to hold the world up by myself, you know what I'm talking about.  Maybe, our freedom begins when we realize our limits and let God begin where we stop. Maybe realizing our own limitations is a part of dying to self, so there is more of God and less of me.

What do you need to quit, and replace with surrender? I'll be honest, the thing I need to quit, is performance mentality. I need to quit trying to earn love, the love of God and mankind, and just Be loving. 

I need to sit at the feet of Jesus and BE, not perform. I need to love, not strive to earn love. So, that it, I quit! I quit the striving  to please man and God. I can't do it. Instead, I accept where my limitations are. I surrender.  

I quit, I surrender, and suddenly that emptiness can be filled with what God intended all along, himself!