Don’t Give Up!

For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. -Romans 8:24-25

Sometimes the Holy Spirit presses the repeat button and the title of the today's blog is a recurring theme. It is a message that resonates with me and I trust that it also will touch the spirit of someone else reading this today.  The enemy would like us to give up hope.  The pressure is to have us throw in the towel and become complacent.  The intensity of the attacks are becoming relentless and there are days when our hearts are torn as we see the destitution all around us. We may wonder how much more can be endured.  But God in His Word continually reminds us not to lose hope.  Hope saves us from despair.  We cannot see it.  Yet we believe it.

Hope is not baseless.  We know in Whom we have put our trust. We do not hope in ourselves.  Our hope is in the Living God.  We may not now know how He is going to deliver.  We may not know when the resolution will come.  Yet, we know by Whose hand our hopes will be realized.  Our hope is in God.  Hope in God is not misplaced.  Hope in God is resting faith.  It is the bench on which we sit as we wait for faith to become sight.

My sisters and brothers don't give up.  We might give out for a moment.  Our strength needs to be renewed.  This is for sure.  But we "ain't giving up."  We will, we must keep holding on.  And as we hold to the unchanging hand of God let us hold on to each other through prayer, through a call, by reaching out.  We are going to make it.  Listen.  Don't you hear it? Can't you feel your help coming on?

God bless! 

in Christ,

Sis. Stephanie