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The scriptures. May God bless the reading of His holy word.
Do you not know? Have you not
heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He gives strength to the weary and
increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young
men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they
will walk and not be faint.
Isaiah 40:28a-31
This ends this
reading from God's holy word. Thanks be to God.
Have you ever found yourself simply
exhausted and wondering if you’re going to make it through any one day or week
or month or year?
Life has a way of draining our
energy and sapping our strength.
Maybe it’s someone who ends up
working countless hours in their job or even working two or more jobs just to
be able to make ends meet. You labor and labor and labor, seemingly always in a
state of perpetual tiredness. I remember many days like that when I was in the
Navy and doing what it took to meet the mission I was tasked to carry out. It definitely
was far from a “nine to five” job. Maybe you can relate.
Maybe you’re a student trying to
earn a college degree. It seems like there’s no end to the amount of class work
you need to finish. And when you do meet the week’s requirement for one class,
you still have several others that place their own demands on your time. You
read and read and read and write and write and write until you can’t stay awake
anymore. It can be exhausting to say the least.
And then there are the fathers and
mothers out there who are home raising children, children who have motors that don’t
stop and run wide open, challenging us to try and keep up with them. They place
a constant demand signal on their care providers and the only break seems to
come when they choose to nap, recharging their little batteries to go at it
again. That leaves little time for the adults to catch their breath and by the
end of the day, they are typically spent.
Indeed, there are any number of
scenarios we could go through that might serve to leave us spiritually and physically
weary with our strength meters on empty. Maybe you are there today as you read
this. Thanks be to God that as in every other matter we go through in life, He
offers us encouragement in the midst of our life challenges. The matter of
being worn out is no different. Look again at the final verses from Isaiah,
Chapter 40:
Do you not know? Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even
youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope
in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they
will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. Isaiah 40:28a-31
We can say that we’re so tired of
(fill in the blank here) that we don’t think we can go on.
The Lord simply says:
Do you not know? Have you not heard?
For the Lord God Almighty, the
everlasting God and Creator of the ends of the earth, gives strength to the
weary and increases the power of the weak. And everyone will grow tired and
weary; everyone will stumble and fall. Even the young.
In the midst of their fatigue and
weakness, the Lord, and only the Lord, makes them to soar up on wings like
eagles. He helps them to run and walk without weariness or feeling faint.
We only need to do one thing and
this is the key, the one thing we miss when we’re looking for relief from the
exhaustion life brings upon us.
All we need to do is hope in the
Lord for when we do, He will renew our strength. This is His promise and the
Lord always keeps His promises perfectly.
Are you weary today?
Put your hope in the Lord and He
will renew your strength.
Are you counted among the weak
today?
Put your hope in the Lord and He
will renew your strength.
Do you feel exhausted, like you’re
ready to collapse under the weight of your responsibilities, whether at work or
at home?
Put your hope in the Lord and He
will renew your strength.
Friends, what a blessed assurance
we have in this! For as we live this thing called life and experience the
fatigue and weariness that often accompanies that living, it’s comforting to
know that we can always find our strength renewed when we need a recharge.
All we need to do is place our hole
in the Lord, the One who gives strength to the weary and increases the power of
the weak.
Where would we be without Him?
Amen.
In
Christ,
Mark
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