[Steve Myers] Do you feel like giving up? Perhaps you feel discouraged. Maybe experiencing a letdown or you just want to quit because it seems sometimes that I just can't make it. Well, there's an interesting passage that should help us to be encouraged. And it's found in a book that we oftentimes skip over, a little prophetic book, one of the Minor Prophets. And in the book of Zephaniah there's an interesting passage in 3:17 that really should bring us some hope.

Here's what it says in the God's Word translation. It says, "The Lord your God is with you." That's a great start because when you feel down, feel discouraged, you feel alone. And yet here the word of God reassures us, God is with us. Then it goes on to say, "He is a hero who saves you." Do you think of God as your hero? Do you think of Jesus Christ, your Savior, as the One who's going to step in when things are the darkest, when they are most dim He's going to be there for us? That's so much better than the summer blockbuster movie. He's there when we need Him most. He is a hero who saves, and not just a hero, not just one of many, but He's the hero. In fact He is your hero. That's what Zephaniah says, a hero that saves you. It goes on, "He happily rejoices over you. He renews you with His love and celebrates over you with shouts of joy" (Zephaniah 3:17).

And so remember this. When you feel down or discouraged, think of the hero that we all have in our Savior Jesus Christ. We can pray that God would be with us, that He would help us to stay in this spiritual battle. We can pray for encouragement. We can pray for the courage that we need to overcome whatever would bring us down, whatever would cause us to think we should give up or quit. We can pray and ask God to give us the courage and the strength to overcome. And we can always ask him to help us remember we have our hero who is saving us.

That's BT Daily. We'll see you next time.