Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1
When I was working in my yard last April, I moved the plants out of the basement. I had stored them during the winter season. I wanted to see if there was any hope of reviving them for spring. I looked at this one little plant, and it looked completely dead to me. It was dried up, the soil was hard as a rock, so I set it aside to be carried off to the compost pile. Five months later, I saw it had never been moved, but when I came closer, I saw beautiful pink blooms among the weeds and hard soil. I had given up on this little plant. I thought there was no hope for it. It was so far gone, dead and useless. I sure was wrong. Come to find out, my mother in law had seen it in the yard and gave it a little water. Several days later it came back to life.
Isn’t that how we are with the people? Especially those closest to us. We give up on them. They walk so far away from God, that we think there’s not a chance they will come back. We look at the outside and think there’s no hope. God can use someone, or something to bring that person back to Him. It’s not our place to decide there’s no hope for someone.
I want to encourage you to keep praying. Keep hoping. Don’t give up on that prodigal child, no matter how far it seems they have gone. God can still revive them, despite the weeds and hard soil in their life.
I’m glad God never gives up on us!
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