It would be easy to give up.  To throw in the towel.  To call it quits.  So many have.  So many are.  Surrounded by loads of people across the County, State, and country who have given up, it would be so easy to join them.  Who would object?  Who would even notice?

And yet...

We who would remain faithful to our God are summoned to a different way of life.  Scripture guides us and we heed it, even in the midst of wholesale and widespread indifference to the things of God.  And what does Scripture say about giving up?

Perseverance is part of your training; God is treating you as his sons. Has there ever been any son whose father did not train him? If you were not getting this training, as all of you are, then you would be not sons but pretenders. Besides, we have all had our human fathers who punished us, and we respected them for it; all the more readily ought we to submit to the Father of spirits, and so earn life. Our human fathers were training us for a short life and according to their own lights; but he does it all for our own good, so that we may share his own holiness. Of course, any discipline is at the time a matter for grief, not joy; but later, in those who have undergone it, it bears fruit in peace and uprightness.

So steady all weary hands and trembling knees and make your crooked paths straight; then the injured limb will not be maimed, it will get better instead. Seek peace with all people, and the holiness without which no one can ever see the Lord. Be careful that no one is deprived of the grace of God and that no root of bitterness should begin to grow and make trouble; this can poison a large number.  (Heb. 12:7-15)

Give up?  No.  Persevere, even if you persevere alone.