“Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.”
(Isaiah 40:30–31)
In part one of this post, I talked about how we need God for everything in life. The line of the song Jesus loves me is very true: “[We] are weak, but He is strong!”
When God created Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, how did He intend them to live? He did not make them strong in themselves and then they became weak when they sinned. Quite the opposite – God created them utterly weak and helpless in themselves so that they could depend entirely on Him. When they took their eyes off their Creator and began to trust in their own ability, that is when were conquered by sin and fell from their relationship with God.
What should our response be? The fact that we are weak is not a problem for God – it is actually the way that we were designed to be.
Jesus said “…without me ye can do nothing.” (John 15:5)
Waiting on the Lord is being bound as one with Him. The Hebrew word translated as “wait” means “to bind together (perhaps by twisting), i.e. collect; (figuratively) to expect.” (Strong’s Concordance)
On our own, we faint and grow weary. If we are joined to the all-powerful Creator of the universe, our strength is transformed into the very ability of God!
Let us press on the know the Lord. Then His power will work in us to accomplish through us all He desires for us and those around us!
Our God is mighty. He is powerful. There is nothing that our God cannot do. I’m reminded of the words of Martin Luther from the great hymn of our faith:
