Don’t Ever Give Up!

And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart. Galatians 6:9 NKJV

I had to repair my toilet because it would take forever for the tank to fill up after flushing. Because it was a simple (not for me) fix, there was no need to call a plumber. I met and overcame many obstacles while I was trying to fix it. I went out and bought the wrong part. Once I realized this, I returned the part and bought the correct one. Once I had the right part in my possession, I made my first attempt of several attempts to remove and replace the old part. However, I soon discovered that I didn’t have the right tool. After looking for weeks, I finally found the right tool to remove the part. However, because I had experienced so much trouble on my previous attempts, I was reluctant to try to repair my toilet again. Despite this, I was tired of having something that wasn’t working, so I was determined to try to fix it. As I tried to remove the faulty part, it was difficult to separate it from the toilet tank. The closer I got to removing it, the harder it was to continue. I kept trying, and I was successful in removing the old part and replacing it with the new one. Once I finished, I turned my water back on, and I was so happy that it worked I started praising God!

The whole time that I was working, I kept thinking, isn’t this just like the situations we face in life? Something stops working the way that it should, but we are reluctant to change it for our fear that the new won’t work correctly, or that we will fail completely. Before I replaced the part on my toilet, I had to wait forty-five minutes after flushing the toilet before I could flush again. I accepted this, because I was unsure and afraid that I would mess up my toilet completely if I tried to fix it. Now that it’s done, I wonder why I waited so long.

How many times has God told us to change the way we are doing things or to go in a different direction, and we become fearful? We try it for a minute or two, and if it doesn’t immediately work, we go back to our old ways. In the meantime, our old ways have become inefficient and hinder us from moving in the things of God. When we grow weary, we should turn back to God, receive and follow His instructions carefully, and it will work! We will be healed, we will obtain our deliverance, and we will be set free by the power of God!

So, no matter what your situation is, or what circumstances you are facing, don’t give up. It gets the hardest when it’s almost over, because that’s when your strength seems to run out. But if you keep on trying, it will come to pass, just have faith in God, and trust Him. He wouldn’t have told you to do something if it couldn’t be done, or if He didn’t think that you couldn’t handle it.