#soap # Jeremiah 36 ## Title: The Gift of Grit ## Scripture: (Jeremiah 36:32) “Then Jeremiah got another scroll and gave it to the scribe Baruch son of Neriah. As Jeremiah dictated, Baruch wrote on this scroll everything that had been on the scroll that King Jehoiakim of Judah burned in the fire. They also added on this scroll several other messages of the same kind.” (NET) ## Observation: In the life of a Christian, we quickly come to understand we cannot do anything on our own. We need God for everything we face in life. This can give the inaccurate picture that our job is to sit and let God do all the hard stuff. This is simply not true. God does the impossible, we do the possible. This can become fuzzy when the hard reaches the point of impossible. Our job is to keep trying until He takes over. This is called Grit. Grit is the idea of never giving up and continuing even when we don’t want to keep going. Jeremiah was told to write a scroll. When the king burned it, Jeremiah could have given up. However, that would not have been what God told him to do. So, he got another and wrote even more. That’s the definition of grit. If you refuse to quit doing what God has told you to do, you’ll find yourself moving forward in more ways than you can imagine. ## Application: Don’t stop just because something gets hard. That may be the greatest sign that you are doing something right. ## Prayer: Thank You, Jesus, for giving us the ability to keep going, because we know You are always with us.