When you feel that you have had enough of everything, and everybody; when all of your body and your mind feels at an end……
‘He gives power to the faint: and to them that have no might he increases strength.’ Isaiah 40:19-31, (but let's read the next two verses) ‘Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall completely fall: But those who wait on the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall fly up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.’
Oh, here comes God’s Word to put us back right again, to restore us and make us new!
It says exactly what it means! God can do what no vitamin tablets or energy drinks can do.
When our strength is gone and we feel like the reservoir of our energy has drained from our life altogether, there is this amazing promise from God.
When we feel that even the small reserves of stubborn resolve to be strong have been exhausted and we feel like giving in to our body’s determination to just shut down, then just get into this word that God delivers to us in our weakest and most vulnerable moments of life.
Even the athletic and fit young men will come to times of weariness and fatigue, and find themselves incapable of doing anything that normally would be ‘a walk in the park’. They too will fall down absolutely shattered and without strength.
However, those who will take the time to stop what they are trying to do, cease from all the struggling and the anxieties that brought them to such a state, and get alone with God, they shall renew their strength. They will find that in that secret place of the most high God, there is a river of refreshing, of life and vitality, of regeneration and resurrection, which the world’s doctors and consultants can never provide, or indeed, know anything about.
Where God is there is health and healing, mercy and grace, abundance and sufficiency for everything that lies ahead of us. For in his presence ‘there is fulness of joy’ (Psalm 16:11); and again the Bible says, ‘The joy of the LORD is your strength’ (Nehemiah 8:10).
If we would but take notice of what God offers, and find the door of refreshing which Jesus spoke about in John 10:9, (you shall go in and out and find ‘pasture’ – or all that you need) we would soon forget all the cares and worries of this diseased and troubling age, and find the converting and sustaining power of God that would turn us into eagles, The Bible says we shall mount up with wings as eagles. Think about that! Not simply like the eagles, but indeed as eagles, with wings that are strengthened by the Holy Spirit, to soar beyond the expectation of those around us who think we are surely cast down for good.
We shall again run, and not get weary or tired out; we shall walk the walk so long as the journey must take us, and not fall down own under the pressures and challenges. God is our strength. We can say like the prophet of old, ‘The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds’ feet (like the nimble feet of a young deer), and he will make me to walk upon my high places’ (the mountains, the battlefields, the spiritual high places).’ Habakuk 3:19
‘The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds’ feet.’ Psalm 27:14
The Word of God, this Holy Bible, has eternity and eternal power running through its pages that can transform our lives, turn back the darkness, overcome the enemy, and bring health and healing, strength and courage, blessing and contentment to our lives.
Read it every day, and see what a difference it will make to your life. If you do not know where to begin, then commit yourself to read two psalms in the morning, and at least one single chapter of John’s Gospel in the evening.
Most of the problems we face in life have a spiritual root. God’s Word has a spiritual and a practical answer. It is life to those who will take the time to open it and wait on God to give the understanding.
Pilgrim Warrior 2022
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