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 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.’
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
