Isaiah 40:21-31

We come to the verse that so many of us are familiar with. 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.This is a verse often referred to when life gets tough, or the crisis arises in their lives. While this verse certainly applies to these great and difficult circumstances, it has a much wider and deeper application.The true Christian journey is not a stroll in the park. While the destination of every true follower of Jesus is glorious, the path leading to that destination is the most difficult path a person can choose.As Christians, all our hope and expectation must be in the LORD. As we rely totally on Him at all times, He will remove our weakness and clothe us in His strength. As this happens, we will mount up in the time of crisis, we will run when the challenges of life overwhelm us and we will walk steadfastly in before the LORD in the normalcy of life.We are living in crucial times. Quite possibly the most crucial in all of human history. Are we wisely using this time to wait upon the LORD. If we wait upon the LORD today, we will walk and not faint. If we walk and not faint today, when the next crisis comes, we will mount with wings like eagles and soar above it all in the strength of the LORD.

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21 Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?

22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:

23 That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.

24 Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.

25 To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.

26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.

27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?

28 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.

29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.

30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:

31 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.