Giving Up

Have you ever felt like giving up? Throwing in the towel? Waving the white flag? Conceding? Pleading guilty? Running away? Moving to Nagorno? Or living in a cave?
I have.
Have you ever felt like giving up on God? Like its just not worth it anymore? It seems that sometimes no matter what you do you cannot find God. Isn't it weird how life is full of peaks and valleys. That one day it seems that God is right there with you and other times you just feel like life is going to take over. That its just not worth living for God anymore. It seems that sometimes I can have so much faith and then other times i'm scared. Scared at what life is gonna do to me next. Scared that I am gonna give up on God and scared that God has given up on me.

Last week we were reading a book in our Bible study called "facing your giants" and it told of King David before he was King. Now this is the same David that killed Goliath a man 4 times his size. A man who trusted God and His promises. In 1 Samuel 21 David runs and is scared... it seems he has given up... he has thrown in the towel... He goes to Gath (his enemy) and is so afraid pretends he is insane. He drools on himself!!!! Then david moves to a cave... how did David get here? How do we get here? David gave up... he stopped trusting God. What is facinating is what David does now. He writes Psalm 57...

Jesus says those that seek will find (Matthew 7:7)

If you find yourself ready to give up... be honest with God and cry out to Him he is waiting for you.

Grace and Peace,
Pastor Jamie