He Gives Strength...Isaiah 40: 28-31

Surely you know.

Surely you have heard.

The Lord is the God who lives forever, who created all the world.

He does not become tired or need to rest.

No one can understand how great his wisdom is.

He gives strength to those who are tired and more power to those who are weak.

Even children become tired and need to rest, and young people trip and fall.

But the people who trust the Lord will become strong again.

They will rise up as an eagle in the sky;

they will run and not need rest;

they will walk and not become tired.

The last four weeks have been...well...challenging for me. I won't bother you with the details... I have been existing in this "fog like" state, where everything hurts...and I can't quite seem to break through to the light...

On Sunday out of pure desperation, I went to church...the first song that was sung had the words of these four verses in it, the ones that had been my "friends in the fog."

More of a lament than a lamppost...

I have always thought I was more irritating than irresistible to God, yet here He was knitting together this little object lesson just for me...

I am loved by God!

Amazing!...

He gently suggested I re-evaluate what He values...

To understand His wisdom...

To know that God's strength is given where he sees fit.

To understand what I perceive as weakness might not be where God sees it

To trust that I will become strong again...

To know that God will allow me the perspective of an eagle when I am overwhelmed by life.

I need to rest in the promise that it is in God's timing that I will walk and in His timing I will run.

When I wait on God and trust His timing...I will not be weary...Shani