What do you do when you think you are losing the fight? Jeremiah 12-16

Jeremiah 15:20 (NASBStr)

“Then I will make you to this people

A fortified wall of bronze;

And though they fight against you,

They will not prevail over you;

For I am with you to save you

And deliver you,” declares the Lord.

In this section of Jeremiah, the prophet is complaining to God about his "ministry" and how he is being treated by his "audience."   In Jeremiah 15:15-21 we read Jeremiah's complaint to God that he was being persecuted by those listening to his message.  He was telling God that he did not sit with the evil men of the day to make merry but had been a faithful devourer of God's Word and kept himself pure and separate from the world (see 15:16-17).   Yet, he was still being tormented.   He wanted God's protection.   He was falling into a state where his emotions were stealing his heart for God and his endurance in God.   God responds and tells him to "repent" ... in 15:19 he tells him to "return" to God.   That means these feelings of fear and self-pity were sinful and God is expecting Jeremiah to turn to God, again, in Faith and allow God do be His protector and deliverer.   God states in the above verse that if Jeremiah will return to Him, God will make him like a bronze wall and will protect him "in" the fight.  He doesn't say He will remove the fight from Jeremiah, only that He will make Jeremiah stronger.   We tend to ask God to remove the fight and God wants us to return to Him so He can bring us through the fight by making us stronger in Him.   Paul discovered this lesson and stated that when he was weak, than he was strong because it was only when he realized he was weak that Christ would be his only strength (2 Corinthians 12:10).  Jeremiah, in chapter 15, shows us his weakness.  God gives him the same answer He wants us to learn:  Cast your fear of weakness on Him and He will sustain you.  He may not remove the fight but He can make you the stronger in the fight.