There are some statistics that have been floating around.

I look at some of them or I heard of them about how many ministers quit the ministry

and the percentage is so high in proportion beyond anything that I have thought.

And I realize that probably only in eternity will we understand and comprehend

of how many people in the ministry who have quit

too soon. Only in eternity will we understand and know how many Sunday school teachers

who have quit too soon. Only then we will understand how many parents who have quit and give up on their children

too soon.

Only then they will understand how many children have given up on their parents too soon.

Only then we'll understand how many relationships that have ended and brought to a halt too soon.

Only then will we know.

And I'm not saying, of course, that sometimes we are forced into situations where we have to move on.

I'm not saying that.

I'm talking specifically about voluntarily, about freely quitting, whether it is out of

discouragement or it's out of not seeing visible results or it's out of sheer boredom with

the task that God has given you, whatever the reason may be.

Today, even among Christians, that attitude and the spirit of stictuitiveness, it has become rare, it has become extinct.

Simply because our society and the world has given up on perseverance, and therefore

society instead of the other way around, is impacting those who are in Jesus Christ,

and those who have faltering faith, give up too soon, quit too soon. This past week I have read

a story about an army chaplain that was brought in at the request of a dying soldier who was

severely and seriously wounded. And when a chaplain came, the dying soldier said to him, he said, please, I want you to take this letter. I want you to send this letter to my former Sunday school teacher. He said, tell her that I have died a Christian. Because of what she taught me in that class in the church,

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