October 25
2018
There is Strength in the Waiting
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 40:28-31
Wait = qavah = to be strong, robust (for the notion of binding fast, tying fast, is applied to strength); to expect, to await (perhaps from enduring, remaining, which differs but little from the notion of strength.
The Word says that we will all become weary at some point in time, every the youths and young men.
What then do we do in times of weariness?
We wait upon the Lord.
That waiting, we are told, will renew our strength.
It is interesting that the term used for wait here is quavah, which itself has a connotation of strength. Sometimes waiting takes strength.
We find ourselves strong in the waiting; the waiting as opposed to giving into the desire to “do”.
Do you find yourself weary today?
Perhaps it is a time to begin “waiting on the Lord”.
Not wasting what is left of your strength in clamouring to “fix” the situation, but to begin to refocus that remaining strength into a position of waiting on the Lord, which will, in time, renew your strength.
But those that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength!