GODLY WAITING RENEWS STRENGTH  

   "If we wait for that we see not, then we...wait for it" Romans 8:25                                       Edward Proffitt, Th.D.     

 

We are living in a weary, worn, tired-all-the-time generation. We go to 
bed tired and get up tired. This condition has caused people to become 
quiet, sullen, and withdrawn. God has become remote and disinteresting, and the Bible seems to make little sense.

    

If these things are true of you, there are words about soaring above it, 
all from the prophet Isaiah: "Hast thou not known? Hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? There is no searching of his understanding. He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength...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 40:28-31).     

Isaiah's generation met desolate days. They would live in exile. The 
desolation would cause emotionally and spiritually cave-ins. They had 
burned out at a time when burn out wasn't popular. To the emptiness (burn out) Isaiah gives a remedy. The remedy is a confident that will exchange our emptiness for His soaring strength.

 

Recovery of strength does not begin with attention on the human condition but rather on Godly capability. There are some things believers ought to already know. Isaiah reminds us with a double question; "Do you not know" -- "Have you not heard" --  know from experience and heard by His Word.     To love God is to reflect on Him as truth. Because He is timeless. 

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He can help in my time. Because He is beyond space, He can help in my place Because He is inexhaustible, He can help in my exhaustion. After Isaiah has looked at God, he ponders the needs of people. He faces the fact of our need for strength. God is the solitary source of strength. All inner resources come from Him. God is the sufficient source for strength.  

  

Isaiah tells us we find strength in the waiting. Those who "wait upon the Lord" are those who believe God can deliver, so they wait for Him to bring His promise to fulfillment. Waiting is not passive but is an active exercise which absorbs the power of God. If your day has become a wearisome task, and you want strength, Isaiah's formula works because it is from God. Submit yourself to wait quietly 
before the Lord for His infused strength ----
  THEY THAT WAIT UPON THE LORD SHALL RENEW STRENGTH
 

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