Daily writing prompt

What’s a moment that made you realize you were stronger than you thought?

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For over 40 years I battled with smoking tobacco. I started when I was merely 11 years old. Throughout the years, I threw them away time and again, only to reach out and start back up whenever stress arrived in my life.

Finally, after all the years of self-propelled willpower failures, I quite trying to quite! Can I say that in a sentence? Oh well, I already did it, so you’ll just have to go with it. Any moment, a baby may wake and I’ll have to put off my prompt answer til later on.

Needless to say, I threw in the towel of hope that I would ever give up the nasty habit. Then, about 3 and 1/2 years ago, I literally heard God’s voice saying, “Child, it’s time to let go of the past. Give me this one thing, and I will take it from you forever.” Well, when the God of creation makes you such an offer, one simply cannot say no. Could you? I couldn’t.

It was one of the most difficult things I’ve ever had to do, and it was utterly miserable. But, for the first time in my entire life, I didn’t feel as if I were carrying such a burden alone. I really did feel God walk with me through the whole process.

I quite cold turkey, as they say. Headaches, nausea, crawling skin, and all, God carried me to the end of that lifelong curse, and to this day, I have had zero… I mean ZERO desire to ever pick up another cigarette.

Did I do it on my own? Physically, yes.

Was it difficult? Oh, absolutely!

Did I think I had the strength to quit for the last time? No!

Whether you believe that I quit under my own strength, or that born of my heavenly father, the important thing to see is that God will always fill in the strength blanks with his own power. It was one of the most important pivotal moments in my spiritual walk.

Trust in God, follow his direction, and he will always ensure we have all the strength we’ll need, even when we don’t think it’s possible.

With God, anything is possible!

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