Keep Going.

At the end of the day, it’s your choice to stay in or walk out. It might feel like you don’t have a choice, but the reality of having free will means that in every moment you get to decide what you do.

Isaiah 40:31 mentions those who will renew their strength, soar on wings like eagles, run and not grow weary, and walk and not be faint. It’s tempting to hear those things and think it sounds really nice, but it doesn’t apply to you or is somehow unattainable. But the beginning part of that verse says those people are the ones who hope in the Lord. They choose to put their hope in the Lord. You can make that choice today, and what happens next isn’t a toss-up. This isn’t the lottery. Those who put their hope in the Lord will renew their strength, will soar on wings like eagles, will run and not grow weary, and will walk and not be faint.

You can choose to keep going. You can choose to put your hope in the Lord. You can choose to believe that He is for you and with you. It doesn’t matter what it looks like, feels like, or seems like, and it doesn’t matter how close you’ve gotten to giving up or how poor your attitude has been. Psalm 73:23 reminds us that we still belong to God. He holds our hand. And the beautiful thing about being held by God is that He never lets us fall. When you think you can’t do it anymore, you can because you’re not holding yourself up; He is holding you up.

Go ahead. Stay. See and experience the unique way the glory of God shines through your life. You won’t regret it.

Consider where you might’ve been placing your hope elsewhere, and choose to return to hope in Jesus. Write down Isaiah 40:31 on a notecard or piece of paper and place it somewhere you’ll see it often. Remember what will come when you place your hope in Jesus.

But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”

Joshua 24:15

but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.

Isaiah 40:31

When my heart was grieved and my spirit embittered, I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before you. Yet I am always with you; you hold me by my right hand.

Psalm 73:21‭-‬23