Have you ever been at that state
of complete and total hopelessness—
where you feel like no matter what you do
there’s no way out of your current situation?
When there’s a voice that keeps telling you
that maybe you’re not going to make it
and you feel like David felt when he said
The floods engulf me!
I’m worn out calling for help! (Psalm 69)
One of the lies the enemy uses
to try to get you to give up
Is that you’ve done too much to be forgiven.
Another lie is that God doesn’t love you—
or that nobody loves you.
To convince you to concede defeat
He’ll say “this is too much for you to handle.”
But these are all lies.
Do you know why the enemy lies to you?
It’s because of how valuable you are in God’s eyes.
God originally created Lucifer for good works,
yet he rejected the rule of God.
And now it kills the devil to think that the all powerful God would love you so much that
He would send His only begotten Son to die for you, and that He would, through offering
repentance for the forgiveness of sins, exalt you from the position of wretched sinner to
the position of being a friend of God.
Do you know that Jesus felt like the situation was too much for Him at one point?
Before He was betrayed in the garden, He said to His Father, “Father, if You are willing,
remove this cup from Me; yet not My will, but Yours be done.”
He was saying, God I don’t want to do this.
I don’t want to have to do this.
It’s too much, but if You ask Me to keep going, I’m going to.
Luke 22:44 says, “And being in agony He was praying very fervently; and His sweat
became like drops of blood, falling down upon the ground.”
The situation was so tormenting for Jesus
that His body was not able to hold itself together.
Jesus even repeated the words of David
Saying “My God, why have You forsaken Me?”
(Psalm 22)
But God wasn’t taking a chance on sending Jesus to the cross.
Do you want to know why?
It’s because God knew that He and Jesus were One.
He knew that Jesus was God.
He also knew that God was love.
And He knew that the love of God would not fail, even when hanging betrayed and alone
on a cross.
If the enemy can get you to surrender
through lying to you,
he can stop you from living in the love
that God so blatantly demonstrated to us.
But the enemy’s goal is bigger than that.
The devil wants to keep you trapped in hopelessness because he knows that if the love of God is
poured out in your heart through the work of the Holy Spirit
that you won’t be able to keep it to yourself.
You see, once the love of God lets loose in you,
you begin to love others,
and they start to understand their value in God’s eyes too.
As Jesus was led to the cross, the situation was saying it’s too hard.
Just give up.
But God’s love was saying there are so many hurting people out there that I care about,
and You can save them.
This doesn’t end with you up on a cross.
It ends with You resurrecting to a new life of fellowship with your bride.
It ends with captives being released.
It ends with the blind being able to see.
It ends with the oppressed getting set free.
If you’re battling the depression of hopelessness today,
don’t give up.
Don’t give up.
Don’t let the lies tell you what to do.
Don’t let the enemy tell you how free you get to be.
Jesus never gave up
because He knew you needed to be free.
He kept going,
so that you would be free indeed.
God’s love never ends,
and His grace is enough.
He even sent the Holy Spirit
To be your comforter
To be your friend
Choose to believe Him.
Make the choice to believe Him.
Make the choice to believe His Word.
Don’t give up.