I Give Up

 Someone needs this message today.  Perhaps it’s not you. Not today. Perhaps it’s someone you know, or someone you will meet. Lift up these words in prayer for someone, naming them before our God, asking that they receive this encouragement from God: “But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’” 2 Corinthians 12:9 

 If you are so sad, depressed perhaps, that you just don’t see how you will make it until tomorrow,  this is for you. If you are so heartbroken that you don’t know if the broken pieces can ever be reassembled, this is for you. If you are unsure how you will be able to live with the physical limitations or the physical pain racking your body, this is for you. If you have hit the bottom to which addiction so often brings its victims, this is for you.

 If you are sitting there ready to say, “I give up,”, then hear this word from God: “Don’t give up.  I am going to lift you up in your weakness and give you my power, the perfect power that grace alone can provide and for which grace alone is sufficient.” 

 Friend, keep on praying this word from God until it becomes a part of your memory, and bring it back to mind when you are ready to give up.  Then feel God’s grace strengthen you. One more hour. One more day.

 A famous London preacher, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, who battled depression his entire life, preached these timeless and prophetic words in 1876:

 “The grace of our Lord Jesus is sufficient to uphold thee, sufficient to strengthen thee, sufficient to comfort thee, sufficient to make thy trouble useful to thee, sufficient to enable thee to triumph over it, sufficient to bring thee out of it, sufficient to bring thee out of 10,000 like it, sufficient to bring thee home to heaven….” (https://www.spurgeon.org/resource-library/sermons/strengthening-words-from-the-saviours-lips/#flipbook/)

 Someone needs to hear this today. Pray for open eyes, open ears, and an open heart.  In Christ there need be no fear, for God’s grace is sufficient for everyone in every circumstance. Don’t give up.