FRIENDS: have you ever felt so weary that you wondered if you wore God out with your stubbornness and samenes? have you ever cried out to God to change your circumstances while burying yourself in a pile of guilt over being the one who has not changed? weary, tired, spent? exhausted, drained, jaded?
i have. all the time.
“lift your eyes and look to the heavens: who created all these? he who brings out the starry host one by one, and calls them each by name. because of his great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing. why do you say, o jacob, and complain, o israel, ‘my way is hidden from the Lord; my cause is disregarded by my God’?
do you not know? have you not heard? the Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. he will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. he gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. they will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.” isaiah 40.26-31.
this morning i look at the sky. it’s a cloudy greyish white, a mucky sticky beginning this morning in florida. i get so tired of seeming to never change, of seeming to have the same problems as always, the same fears, the same hang-ups, the same habits… so i lift my eyes and look to the sky. God created the order and time and nature that orders circumstances. it’s His understanding that makes the difference time and again, his strength, his inability to grow tired and weary of me. His love is so great that i can throw all my hope on him, over and over, and truly believe that i will soar, i will run, strong and free. i will.
have you heard this? “for he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.” colossians 1.12. Father in Heaven, my prayer is something like this: rescue me!! though i know you have already pulled me out of so much darkness, i cry out again, rescue me! i will put my hope in you this morning, because you do not grow weary, because your understanding does not fail. because you have brought me into your kingdom. help me forgive. help me just relax and look up. also bless my friends this morning with renewed hope. give them visions of their future flights and the finish line of this great race we run. God of life, let me live fully and hope fully. you see me, you see us, our ways are not hidden. your ways are unchanging. Give us the strength we need to live our day in You, in hope.
