Life is hard. How many times have you heard me say that The truth is sometimes hard to take, but in the end, it’s always the best thing to believe. Even when the truth is that your season is over…
Our cousin and close friend, Jihan, was a freshman in high school. She was running hurdles in her very first Varsity track meet when her world was overturned by injury. While sailing over the third hurdle, her back foot caught the top of the hurdle, causing her left knee to smash into the track, freakishly tearing most of her major ligaments. Her season was over before it had even started. What do you do when you receive devastating news? How do you handle the heartache and hurt?
I was a senior that year and was writing notes on the back of my pictures. When I got to Jihan’s, I contemplated what I would say. I wanted to be encouraging yet didn’t want to give false hope (after all, we didn’t know if she would be able to ever participate in any sport again). The only hope that isn’t false is God’s, so in the course of the note I wrote “Never give up and never get down. Always look up, God’s there when youre down. PS. Dont throw this away; I think I just wrote a song.”
Never Give Up is a song of encouragement and hope. Hopefully, God will use the words of this song to inspire and motivate all of us, not just to get over hurts and deal with pain but to keep running the race that He has planned for us, the race of life. Tough times will come and life will be hard, but if we will depend on Jesus and let Him help us through the hurt and tough times, we’ll have the strength to Never Give Up.