TRADING WEAKNESS FOR STRENGTH
Isaiah 40:27-31
The prophet Isaiah begins by telling of a believer who is totally exhausted, wrung out, spent and discouraged due to an extreme burden of ongoing injustice and now given the weights of doubt, despair, and the weakness that comes with hopelessness.
Weary in faith and physical strength, he cries out “My way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God.". vs. 27
Isaiah then reminds the discouraged one that , unlike him , God who created all of heaven and earth, and still retains full creative power, never gets tired, discouraged, or faint: “Hast thou not known, or heard, that the everlasting God the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary?” vs. 28
The difference is obvious, the believers strength is exhaustible, but Gods is inexhaustible.
And God is willing and ready to impart His strength to every weary believer: “He giveth power to the faint; and to those who have no might he increaseth strength” vs. 29
Isaiah goes on to explain that we must receive these fresh impartation of strength, because everyone of us, even the strong, will at times grow weary with the injustices, difficulties, delays, and labors that try us and find ourselves ready to fall or fail: “Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall” vs. 30
We can see that human strength no matter how great will eventually fail under the rigors of divine testing.
We need to be receptive to the inexhaustible strength of God.
Only by sitting in Gods presence daily, by meditatively feeding on the bread of His Word, drinking of the living water that is His Spirit in prayer, and worshipping Him with loving adoration, with a life of thanksgiving and with song, in our hearts and from our mouths.
As we wait in Gods presence something supernatural occurs. The inexhaustible God refills His exhaustible servants with His unfailing strength: “But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength…vs. 31
A supernatural exchange takes place when we wait upon the Lord.
Strength is renewed, faith is restored, and our vision increases as we rise in ever higher spirals upon the warm breath of the Holy Spirit….”they shall mount up with wings like eagles.” vs. 31
An eagle has the ability to recognize the warmth and strength of the currents of air and can ride that breath to ever higher boundaries leaving the weak and exhausted behind to seek new realms and through their success encourage others in the knowledge of how to exchange the weak, for the limitless supply of strength..
“they will run and not grow weary, and walk and not faint” vs. 31
What has happened? Nothing short of an ongoing miracle.
By receiving Gods graciously proffered strength, we've become more like our heavenly Father: inexhaustible
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