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LIFE Bite is a short-format Christian video podcast where Chet Lowe and guests dive into real-life issues with biblical truth—one bite at a time.
Each episode delivers practical wisdom, spiritual insight, and honest conversations to help you grow in faith and live with purpose.
Are you a quitter? Wow. That's a hard question. I know. But it's a question that
Speaker 2:we need to answer. Are you someone that gives up on things, gives up on people, gives up on jobs, and actually just quits. Well, you got to take a look to your own personal space. Do you have a multiplicity of projects that you've just not finished? Maybe it's a craft or a garage.
Speaker 2:Maybe it's a junk drawer. You got to take a look and ask yourself just a little inventory of your life. Are you a quitter? Do you give up before the task is finished? Well, I want to be honest with you.
Speaker 2:I quit something. I'll never forget. It was a time trial. I was trying to when I was 18 years old I was trying to go to the senior nationals for a swimming event. Well I did a time trial and in this time trial you get to swim your event and I did and I did it three times and I missed the time that I needed to have by point three seconds.
Speaker 2:Point three. Now that may not sound like a lot to you but in the swimming world that's a lot of time and I was so frustrated by the third time that I tried I walked off the pool deck and I quit. Now I gotta tell you know, it felt good in the moment. Just that emotional release that you're so frustrated that you just don't wanna continue, you don't wanna endure, and you just quit. But I learned a really important lesson at 18 years old.
Speaker 2:I learned the destruction of a quitting personality. I learned the impact of it. Because I was never a great swimmer again. I mean, I went back a year later, I had developed a quit mentality that I needed to be able to change as a Christian. Because I need to let you know something as believers.
Speaker 2:We're not quitters. That's not what we're called to. We're called to endure because that's the character of God. Endurance, in fact. In Hebrews chapter 10, the Bible sets us up and lets us know we are not those who draw back.
Speaker 2:So in my family, I always use the swimming story, my own failure to be able to express to my wife and to my children, don't quit in life because you never know the impact of quit. It might feel good in the moment. It may even feel like you don't have to work hard and you can just get away with something, but the character that you're building is not a godly character. It's gonna have an impact in your life a lot later. And so the Bible tells us, like I said in Hebrews chapter 10, we're not those who draw back.
Speaker 2:Now you need to know what the Bible is setting us up for. The Bible is setting us up for that great chapter, chapter 11 in the book of Hebrews, where it is a list upon list of characters and people in the Bible who chose not to give up. Now you gotta know why the writer was writing this book. Because there were a group of Jews that were about to quit on Christianity. They were suffering.
Speaker 2:They were going some getting some problems and persecution. They were even getting some, in in fighting amongst their family of why did you leave the Jewish faith. You need to come back to the Jewish Jewish faith. And so they were getting ready to drift away, the Bible says. They were getting ready to quit.
Speaker 2:So the writer says, listen, we're not those who draw back, we're those who endure. And then what the Bible does is gives us that great chapter in chapter 11 and lists a group of people that chose not to quit. A man like Abraham, who was called of God to leave his family and go to the land of Canaan, and he chose not to quit. That's why he became our father of faith. A man like Noah.
Speaker 2:Noah, who built an ark for a hundred and twenty years, and he chose not to give up despite the fact that there were problems and pressures and persecutions from the world while he was building this boat. I mean, there was no need to have a boat, and everyone's looking at Noah going, what in the world are you doing? But God had spoken to Noah, and God had told Noah to build this ark, and so he continued to build. A man like Joshua, now Joshua and Caleb, they're some of my favorite characters in the Bible. If you remember their story, they were about to go into the promised land, and so Moses sent 12 spies to go spy out the land, and they came back with grapes like this big but there were 10 spies that were afraid.
Speaker 2:They told the whole tribe of people. They told all 12 tribes listen there's giants in the land we can't defeat these guys. Not Joshua and Caleb. They had the word of God and God told them to go into the land and when they saw the land, they did not see an obstacle. They saw an opportunity.
Speaker 2:They didn't want to quit and they didn't want to quit on God. God had told them, go and do this thing, and they wanted to go and do it. But the 10 spies had convinced millions of people, and it's amazing to me how a minority can affect the majority. And we need to be careful of that in our own country, that the loud minority doesn't divert the majority of our country and we've got to make sure that we follow what God wants us to do in this country not how a minority despite how fact how loud they are wants to lead us away from the principles of God. Now, getting back to our story with Joshua and Caleb.
Speaker 2:Joshua and Caleb believed God, and they didn't wanna quit on God. They didn't wanna quit the task that God had given them to go in, to divide, and to conquer. But because these 10 spies had convinced the entire nation not to go in, Joshua and Caleb suffered. And you know what amazes me? Joshua and Caleb went through the forty years of wilderness even though it wasn't their fault.
Speaker 2:They still were not willing to quit even though they were disappointed that they did not get to go into the promised land. And then when Moses died and Joshua was leading the people in, Joshua didn't go, I can't believe I couldn't go in forty years. No. That wasn't his attitude. He was not a quitter.
Speaker 2:He had the opportunity to go in and divide and conquer because he was going to endure no matter how long it took to fulfill the word of God in his life. So here's how this chapter in Hebrews ends. It's Hebrews chapter 12. Listen, therefore, he says, we also, since we're surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses like Moses who didn't give up, Abraham who didn't give up, Joshua, Caleb who didn't give up, He says, let us lay aside every weight and sin that so easily ensnares us and let us run our race with endurance that is set before us looking unto Jesus the author and finisher. Now that's important.
Speaker 2:Jesus is our example. He didn't quit. He didn't stumble on the way up to that cross and go, that's it. I've had it. No.
Speaker 2:The Bible says in Proverbs 24, though a righteous man stumbles, he gets back up again. Because we're not quitters. We're more than conquerors. And if there's something in your life that you've quit on, a relationship, maybe you quit a job, maybe you've developed the character of being a quitter, sitting there just listening to this podcast on your couch, It's time to grow in your endurance because Christians aren't quitters. We finish because Jesus set our example.
Speaker 2:He's the author and the finisher. Take a look at your own life. The very fact you're listening to this podcast is God letting you know I'm not quitting on you. And you can be confident of this, that he who began a good work is gonna finish that work in your life until the day of Christ Jesus. God bless you guys.
Speaker 2:Don't be quitters. It's time to be victorious and be more than a conqueror. That's what we're called to in Christ. Have the character of endurance.