Isaiah 4028 Have you not known? Have you not heard?
The everlasting God, the Lord, The Creator of the ends of the earth, Neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable. 29 He gives power to the weak, And to those who have no might He increases strength. 30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall, 31 but those who wait on the Lord Shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.
The everlasting God, the Lord, The Creator of the ends of the earth, Neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable. 29 He gives power to the weak, And to those who have no might He increases strength. 30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall, 31 but those who wait on the Lord Shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.
I
love Isaiah 40, it is action packed with power, promise and truth. “Have you not known? Have you not heard?
Isaiah asks. If you hadn’t heard before,
Isaiah 40 breaks it down for us. One of
the truths in this passage of scripture that perplexed me for many years, is
the end of verse 31 “they shall walk and not faint”. This portion of the scripture came alive to
me, after I had walked a few years with the Lord. See I am a runner, and if I think about
fainting, it would be because I was running too long and too hard….but that is
in the physical. One thing we learn spiritually
as a child of God, is that in order to live a life of faith pleasing to the
Lord, we must walk with Him. This race
of endurance is not a sprint, some say it is a marathon, but for me it has been
more like a combination of a sprint, a run & a lot of walking. We have to walk in the Spirit. We can’t sprint, unless it is the season to
do so. Sometimes it feels like a
marathon because it takes so long to get to the finish line of a promise from
God. But the hardest times for me in my
Christian walk have been the steady pace of not going to fast & not going
to slow. It has been walking with my
eyes focused on Christ, and not what is going on around me or even inside
me. It has been in these times that I
have felt like fainting, but Christ has empowered me to just take one more
step, trust Him a little further, and to hold on just a little longer. It is the day-to-day monotony, waiting for a
change that can wear us out.
We
the children of God can become weary of the troubles of this world, the failings
of humans, and trying to do things in our own strength. But I propose to you today as Isaiah did
thousands of years ago, have you not known, have you not heard of the God, my
God:
…The
everlasting God, the Lord, The Creator of the ends of the earth, neither
faints nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable. 29 He
gives power to the weak, And to those who have no might He increases
strength.
As
we walk together, being empowered by the Holy Spirit, let us be comforted by
His love so that we will not faint, if we WAIT on the Lord. Hallelujah and Amen.
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