"Done Under!"

"O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind." (Psalms 83:13) Another thing that I have learned over all of these years, is that we don't give up; no way, no how, we must not give up! I have been to the edge of the cliff before; it's not a very comfortable place to be. You don't have any idea what you are doing, because what you are doing is not what God wants you to do. God wants a fighter. A fighter is someone that will stand for what they believe in, and then take everything that comes their way, standing tall and unafraid. Mathew Henry puts it like this: "Those that trust in God have their hearts fixed; those that fight against him are unfixed, like a wheel." Like the stupid song, "The wheels on the bus go round and round," there is nothing that makes it fixed to anything, it's just a stupid song to amuse children as they ride on a bus. That's pretty much the idea of this verse: those that do not fix their hearts to God are unfixed to anything that matters; and even what they think matters, is so very temporal, it really does not count for anything at all. That's is why we never give up! Nothing else really matters like the way having our hearts fixed to God matters. We might try to give up, but giving up is not an option that feels right. When we feel like giving up, we need to press harder towards God; praying harder, digging deeper into the word, and spending time sharing what we believe with others. Those that are unfixed to God, when they try harder at what they do, their circle just gets bigger, their spinning just increases faster and faster; but they still have nothing of substance to hold onto...
"Listen! The armies of many nations roar like the roaring of the sea. Hear the thunder of the mighty forces as they rush forward like thundering waves. But though they thunder like breakers on a beach, God will silence them, and run them away. They will flee like chaff scattered by the wind, and like a tumbleweed whirling before a storm. In the evening Israel waits in terror, but by dawn its enemies are dead. This is the just reward of those who plunder us, a fitting end for those who destroy us." (Isaiah 17:12-14) NLT