“The resistance is always fiercest on the borderline of a breakthrough.”

A thought by Steven Furtick, (2014-02-11) from his book, Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others (Kindle Location 2568). The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

Have you found that true in your life? You are looking for something and you are still looking and it keeps coming into your mind that you are not going to find it, that the effort is useless and it really isn’t worth finding anyway and there are other more important things to do so why not go on, it is just not worth your time but you keep at it and then you find it. But you were close to quitting.

And I was really close to quitting today. I just could not find a thought to share that really clicked. There are some days that I just read a few pages and there it is, the thought. It just falls into place. I just know it is the right thought so I find my computer and I start writing. But that wasn’t true today. I came so very close to stopping over and over today. I’ll just not write a thought today. I’ll do it tomorrow. I’m sure it won’t be missed and I have others thing that I need to do. And it is really too late in getting it out. It is already after 12 here. No one will miss it.

But I couldn’t stop because I knew there was a thought out there that you and I needed so I keep reading. Oh in my reading today God really spoke to me personally on so many different things. He opened up so many different thoughts for me personally. I needed this time but I also believed that He had a thought that you needed so I kept searching.

And then there it was, “The resistance is always fiercest on the borderline of a breakthrough.” I needed that and I believe you did too.

So what are you about to quit doing?

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