Faint Not

Are you almost giving up? Are you at the verge of letting go at the final hurdle to your desired end? We shall reap eventually if we don’t give up hope. Some of us break down when we are on the brink of breaking through. What is that thing that you have toiled so much in prayer for and does not seem likely to materialize any time soon? What are you trusting God for and yet seems so distant and unrealistic?

Have you been doing good stuff for other people only for them to disappoint you and use you? Do you feel let down by those you have sacrificed so much for? Have the people you have struggled so much to protect hang you out to dry? Have you been forsaken by those you lost time, finance and energy protecting? Does your investment in someone seem like a bad move?

Galatians 6:9 encourages us to stay fresh in well doing, or to quote it right, to not be weary of well doing. We are told that if we don’t faint, we shall reap the reward in due season. We have this promise of reward and it is a good incentive to keep us going. Sometimes, the people we spend so much investment on seem like failed projects and it is in these circumstances that we can get to experience what God goes through with us. He invests so much in us, only for us to waste ourselves on passing fancies. He invested His only begotten Son so that we would not perish, but instead have everlasting life; yet so many people reject Him and go to the grave unforgiven and unrepentant.

In spite of all that we do, or fail to do, God doesn’t give up on us. He is true to Himself for He is faithful even when we are faithless. He overlooks our failed attempts at self-fulfilment, to show us that true achievement is found in our being in Him. God doesn’t give up on us, so we shouldn’t give up on ourselves, and we should not give up on those who God has given to us. Faint not. Keep the dream alive.