You’re surely not alone if you have. It’s easy to get discouraged when we pray fervently for someone to come to salvation or to take the next step of sanctification with the Lord...and we see no results. In fact, sometimes the person may even seem to be walking further and further away from the Lord.
Is it ok to give up?
The father of the Bible’s famous prodigal son surely knew what it was like to watch someone you love walk further and further from the Lord. Did he give up?
(Luke 15:11-20 New International Version) “Jesus continued: ‘There was a man who had two sons. The younger one said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of the estate.’ So he divided his property between them.
‘Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth in wild living. After he had spent everything, there was a severe famine in that whole country, and he began to be in need. So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs. He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.
‘When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my ...
