Never despair

I thought about using Churchill’s “Never give up,” as the title of this entry.  But sometimes you need to give up because what you are attempting is not going to work and/or is not right.

But giving up is not the same as despairing.  Giving up is the pursuit of a new path.  It is hope.  It should be.

Never despair.

I’ve been reading in Isaiah and it occurred to me that one of the great things about the Bible’s corporate perspective on reality means that the corporate can often be applied to the personal.

Awake, awake, put on strength,
O arm of the LORD;
awake, as in days of old,
the generations of long ago.
Was it not you who cut Rahab in pieces,
who pierced the dragon?
Was it not you who dried up the sea,
the waters of the great deep,
who made the depths of the sea a way
for the redeemed to pass over?
And the ransomed of the LORD shall return
and come to Zion with singing;
everlasting joy shall be upon their heads;
they shall obtain gladness and joy,
and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

No matter what you are going through, it is not over.  And your future is not determined by your past.  God can change things totally around.  He has in the past and he can do so again.

For thus says the Lord: “You were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money.” For thus says the Lord God: “My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there, and the Assyrian oppressed them for nothing. Now therefore what have I here,” declares the Lord, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail,” declares the Lord, “and continually all the day my name is despised. Therefore my people shall know my name. Therefore in that day they shall know that it is I who speak; here am I.”

Never despair.

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