DFQ

DFQ is both a warning and a promise: Don’t Faithlessly Quit, because we are Destined to Finish the Quest. The returned exiles built the altar first, despite their fear, but then the work stalled for eighteen years. Opposition slowed it, but what stopped it was drift from within. Faithless quitting rarely says “I quit.” It says “not yet” while we panel our own houses, and it comes from unbelief rather than the giants in front of us. The way back is repentance, which means picking up our tools again, because no failure makes us a failure unless we quit. Finishing comes not by might or power but by the Spirit’s continual, supernatural supply, like the oil that fills the lampstand without anyone hauling it. So we must not despise the day of small things or let comparison to former days steal our joy, since the joy of the Lord is our strength and a harder season is not a smaller one. God measures with a plumb line and not a yardstick, and the same hands that lay the foundation will complete it. The quest is not a building but a thousand generations of sons and daughters. When the capstone is set, the only shout that belongs on a finished work is “Grace, grace to it!” So continue, build, and prosper.