Like eagles

Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the LORD, The Creator of the ends of the earth, Neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the weak, And to those who have no might He increases strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, And the young men shall utterly fall, But those who wait on the LORD Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint. – Isaiah 40v28-31

It’s a tough old world. We had just better accept that. Things are tough and life is not fair. Sometimes it seems that we are worn out and crawling through the dirt trying to eke out an existence in this dusty, dirty old world. It gets wearying. We get tired of it. Sometimes we just want to stop even trying.

Everybody gets tired. Even the youngest, strongest, and fittest eventually get tired. When you get to a certain age that tiredness tends to come even sooner. We all fall, even the young. Falling is a part of life.

Failure and falling come when we depend on ourselves. Our own strength will always fail us, every single time.

But (there is that marvellous interjection again) they that wait on the Lord will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles to soar above all of the daily stuff we all fight with. They will run in His strength and not grow weary. They will walk and not faint.

What is the key phrase it this beautiful passage? It’s pretty simple – ‘they that wait on the Lord.’

Waiting on the Lord means we know that He knows what is best. We know His timing is best. We know His circumstances are.

If we ever get to that point we can be like the eagle soaring above all the hardships and challenges and difficulties that come our way.

Let's try some soaring today shall we?