We Cannot Give Up

We Cannot Give Up 

by David Brenneman 

Just ask the waves

If they are stilled at the mention of His name

They'll say my God is still the same

Ask the walls

If they still fall at the mighty sound of praise

They'll say my God is still the same

When did He break His promise?

When did His kindness fail?

Never has, never will

My God is still the same

When did He lose His power?

When did His mercy change?

Never has, never will

My God is still the same, yeah

My God is still the same

Just ask the words

You prayed in desperation if they're heard

They'll say my God is still the same

Ask the grave

If it's strong enough to keep hope in it's chains

It'll say, "God is still the same"

Yeah

When did He break His promise?

When did His kindness fail?

Never has, never will

My God is still the same

When did He lose His power?

When did His mercy change?

Never has, never will

My God is still the same, yeah

Not once did He ever stop moving

Not once has He ever let go

Not once did He ever stop proving

Our God is in control

Not once did He ever stop moving

Not once has He ever let go

Not once did He ever stop proving

Our God is in control

When did He break His promise?

When did His kindness fail?

Never has, never will

My God is still the same

When did He lose His power?

When did His mercy change? 

Never has, never will

My God is still the same, yeah

Not once did He ever stop moving

Not once has He ever let go

Not once did He ever stop proving

Our God is in control

Not once did He ever stop moving

Not once has He ever let go

Never has, never will

My God is still the same

(My God is still the same)

My God is still the same

- "My God is Still the Same" Sanctus Real 

Quitting and giving up on the plan of God for you or I isn't what the Spirit wants for us. 

Rolling over and caving in to that particular temptation is very detrimental to our growth in Christ Jesus. 

When did He break His promise?

When did His kindness fail?

Can you point to a time when He broke a promise?  Is there some moment that is distinct where you can say "There!"?

When did He lose His power?

When did His mercy change?

These thoughts of Jesus breaking promises, of His kindness failing. These thoughts of His power not being enough or His mercies changing with regards to us.

Where do they really come from?

When two Believers even consider parting ways because whatever has happened appears unsurmountable...isn't this whay they are truly telling themselves and the world?  That there's no way that the same power that raised Jesus from the dead is greater than what they are seeing?

Not once did He ever stop moving

Not once has He ever let go

Not once did He ever stop proving

Our God is in control

When we walk with the Lord in the light of His Word

What a glory He sheds on our way!

While we do His good will, He abides with us still

And with all who will trust and obey

Trust and obey, for there's no other way

To be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey

When we entertain thoughts that say that a relationship isn't worth fighting for that God was present at its inception, that God put His blessing on, then we are saying we know more than the Almighty, that we know better than the Author and the Perfector of our faith. 

When we put our personal happiness ahead of the Will of God...we will face utter disappointment.  When we dig in as a burrow, as a stubborn donkey, against what the Spirit is or has taught us, we will not succeed.  We will yet still face the truth that our God is still the same.  

We cannot live for self and expect Jesus to bless our actions.  

We cannot pursue what all we want to do in life and make Jesus sit it out until we're done and expect Him to not care.

Our sin nature as well as Satan, want us to cultivate even a weed or two of selfishness in our lives.  Those weeds, those sinful thoughts and feelings, those sinful desires, so easily entangle.  

We may indeed, for a time, get what we think we wanted.  We may indeed think we have found peace and happiness.  

The Truth is God is still the same.

The Truth is Jesus, who's still the same. 

When we give up on something or someone that God brought together...that it's very evident that He found joy in that moment of unity in Christ...we will never find true happiness again until we turn back to Jesus and confess our sins in this.

Remember the Prodigal Son began his disobedience by living it up. Thinking that his life was much better away from family and the responsibilities under his father's roof.  He thought of all the joy he was having at doing whatever his will desired. He had what he wanted and no one was going to take it back.  

But then the bottom eventually fell out.

The money dried up. 

The people whom he spent his money on and with wanted nothing to do with him. 

He sank to rock bottom.  Only then was it dawning on him what his father had been trying to teach him and explain to him.  

Returning to his father and his father's authority was the only right thing to do. 

We will be tempted to quit on the plan of God for us because Satan does not want it to happen. 

It may be a news flash or not, but if God values it, if God is invested in it, Satan wants it or wants to destroy it.

If you are quitting on God's work in you...you will not find the happiness or the peace that only comes from a right relationship with Jesus.  

Giving up on Christian friendship or on a Biblical marriage is not what the Spirit ever wants of the children of God.  

The world is watching Believers.  The world is hoping to see Believers give up on God.  To believe that He's given up on those who claim to be Christians. To revel in the tarnishing of the name of Jesus. 

Has Jesus changed?

Are you facing something greater than Jesus can handle?

Are you attempting to walk away from someone or something that has the blessing of God on it?  

Are you abandoning the call of God for you in Christ Jesus because it's not what you want?

My Dear Reader...we are to value what God values. 

We are to want what Jesus wants. 

We are not to give up on God's will for us. 

We are not to entertain thoughts that lead us to think that anything blessed of God isn't worth fighting for. 

We who are saved in Christ Jesus were worth Jesus fighting for.  

Have you embraced self more than you have before?  Let go.  Give that up.

Have you been trying to build a life you want rather than what Jesus wants of you?  Let go. Give that up.

Have you decided that someone isn't worthy of the love of God? Oh my Friend, don't ever do that. 

Have you decided this or that in order to get what you want rather than to seek what He wants of you?  Stop and go back to Jesus. 

People so easily these days think that God's changed when He has not.  The Word of God cannot change.  It reads that He's the same, yesterday, today and forever.  Our God is still the same. 

Our God is still the same.