The easy road is not always the best road to travel.
I get it. We all get tired and completely exhausted at times. Decision fatigue is a real thing, and the call to think through, examine, or make an educated guess on one more decision makes you feel even more exhausted.
Enters, the draw to travel down the easy road. The one where the decisions are made is less, or the struggle seems to be alleviated sooner rather than later.
But trying to exit a struggle prematurely is not always the best option. Just ask the butterfly whose fight to emerge from its constraining cocoon literally means the difference between success and failure, life and death. It must go through the struggle to completely come out in all its beauty!
There is nothing beautiful in a struggle except the joy that comes as an end result. No battle is fun. That’s why they are called battles: they consist of fighting—fighting physically, fighting mentally, fighting emotionally, and spiritually. This is something that most people would prefer not to do.
But if you ask Gideon if he felt the fight was worth it after God gave him the victory with very limited resources, I’m sure he will tell you yes, all the way (Judges 7).
Or, how about Jehoshaphat, who was promised he didn’t need to fight in the battle but was still instructed to go against the enemy with nothing more than a praise (2 Chronicles 20:1-2)?
And speaking of praise, what about the impenetrable walls of Jericho coming down with nothing more than an obedient march followed by a great shout of the same (Joshua 6)?
All these battles seemed impossible to win at the onset. If anyone had dwelled on that possibility, surely, they would have caved under pressure and bowed out before things got too intense and before gaining the victory.
But “the just shall live by faith!” That is what we are told four times in Scripture (Hab. 2:4; Rom. 1:17; Gal. 3:11; Heb. 10:38). The repetitiveness of it should tell us of its importance. Great things in Scripture are done through faith (Heb. 11). Faith to follow through and to continue moving forward where God is leading. Taking yourself out of His plan could mean the loss of a great victory and opportunity.
If you must, take a break, catch your breath, seek spiritual counsel, but do not quit.
Don’t exit the fight, my friend. Wait until God brings you through. In the end, you will see something more beautiful than the wings of a butterfly. You will see God’s plan come to fruition in your life.
“And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.” Galatians 6:9
Blessings~
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