This Is the Part Where Most People Give Up… Don’t.

There are days when life doesn’t just feel hard—it feels flat-out impossible. Like every breath costs too much. Like the weight on your chest is more than air can fix, and your shoulders are carrying battles you never signed up for. You didn’t ask for this. You didn’t see it coming. And somewhere in the chaos, your soul screams out, God, where are You? You whisper through tears, Can You hear me, Lord? Do You see me, Father? You’re not asking for a perfect answer or a plastic sermon. You’re not looking for a catchphrase on a coffee mug. You just want to know one thing—Am I going to make it through this?

Let me tell you something hell doesn’t want you to hear: Yes. You are going to make it. And not just make it—you’re going to walk out of this fire refined like gold, if you don’t give up. If you don’t lose heart. Not because of who you are, but because of Who He is. He won’t let you quit. He just won’t.

“Let us not grow weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest—if we do not give up.”

(Galatians 6:9)

Life hits hard, and sometimes without warning. One day you’re making plans, and the next, your job is gone. You’re holding a doctor’s report you didn’t ask for, planning a funeral you never expected, or staring at the ceiling at 3 a.m. while your mind spins with fears you can’t turn off. The ground beneath your feet shifts, and suddenly the world feels cruel and chaotic. You’re not crazy for feeling this way. But you’d be mistaken to think you’re alone.

If you are in Christ, then Christ is in you. And if Christ is in you, then so is His strength. His peace. His power. His endurance. Paul said it like this in Galatians 2:20: “It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me.” That means your strength isn’t measured by your mood, your bank account, or how well you think you’re holding it all together. It’s measured by the One who conquered death—and He doesn’t waver when storms roll in.

Jesus never promised us a life free from trouble. In fact, He guaranteed the opposite. “In this world you will have trouble,” He said in John 16:33. But He didn’t leave us hanging. He followed it up with this: “But take heart! I have overcome the world.” That’s not just poetic comfort—it’s powerful truth. He didn’t say, “You’ll overcome if you try harder.” He said, I have overcome—and if you are in Him, then that victory belongs to you.

So when the unexpected strikes—when the phone rings with bad news, when the numbers in your bank account don’t match the bills on your counter, when your family is falling apart or your heart is fighting to believe again—don’t collapse inward. Press in—press harder, go deeper, shout louder—into the One who swore He would never leave you or forsake you. Drop the pride. Ditch the flesh. Get low before God and walk in the Spirit like your life depends on it—because it does. Seek His face at all times, and He will raise you up in His timing. God does not panic. He does not forget. He does not overlook a single detail. And He most certainly does not abandon His own.

Psalm 34:17 tells us, “The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears them; He delivers them from all their troubles.” Did you catch that? He hears. Not ignores. Not delays indefinitely. He hears. Your whisper in the dark, your sob in the shower, your prayer muttered through clenched teeth—He hears all of it. And if He called you to it, He will see you through it.

Keep swimming. Keep going. Dry land is coming.