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Waiting on the Lord Isaiah 40:27 ¶ 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. This was written by the prophet Isaiah as Judah was about to go into Babylonian captivity. Many folks felt that God didn’t see their situation, or wasn’t too concerned about it. In the previous verses of the chapter, Isaiah speaks comfort to Judah and lets them know that God is working out His eternal plan that will accomplish their salvation. A forerunner will come and announce the coming of the Lord as a man. The people were to go to the highest mountain and proclaim, “Behold your God.” Yes, there would still be trials and tribulations in their immediate future and they would not be alive when Jesus appeared, but God’s eternal plan of redemption was being worked out. The Lord God would be appearing as a shepherd and gently care for His tender lambs and would sacrifice His human life on their behalf. It was He who had measured the waters in the hollow of His hand , meted out the heavens with a span and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains and hills (vs. 12). There were no counselors present to advise Him, He did all things after the counsel of His own will (Eph. 1:11). The nations are a drop in a bucket in His sight. Nobody taught Him knowledge or gave Him wisdom , because all knowledge and wisdom comes from Him and Him alone (Col. 2:2-3). It is He who sits upon the circle of the earth and considers men to be as grasshoppers. He stretches forth the heavens as a curtain and a tent to dwell in (Verse 22). We know that there are a innumerable number of stars in our galaxy alone, along with an untold number of other galaxies. Our God has a name for each and everyone of them. Because of His power and might they continue on without failing. If God is that mindful of the distant stars, don’t you think He’s also mindful of us? He created and named each star, but before He did that He wrote our names in the Lamb’s Book of Life (Rev. 17:8). Isaiah 40:26 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. Isaiah also gives a word for the rulers and movers and shakers of this world (vss. 23-24). When God wants them out of the way, He has only to blow upon then as the stubble of the field. He appoints them to fulfill His purposes (Ro. 3:4). They can just as easily be removed by Him. So when we are absorbed in our present trials and tribulations, let us remember that our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory (II Cor. 4:17). We need to look up into the heavens and think just how did all these things come into being. Who set the sun in the sky and designed the earth’s orbit to give us night and day? Some people would say it’s all by accident, but I DON’T THINK SO! No it was by the simple word of the Everlasting God, our Creator. He doesn’t faint and He’s never weary and there is no searching of His understanding (vs. 28). We are in trying times just as the people of Judah to whom Isaiah wrote this text. Some of them were looking for the coming of the Messiah and some of us are awaiting His return. Between that time and ours, the sun has come up everyday giving us seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter and night and day (Gen. 8:22). All for our benefit and at the direction of our loving God and Savior. Yes we get faint, but He gives us power. We have no might but He gives us strength. In our weakness, His strength is made perfect (Ps. 18:32; II Cor. 12:9). Perhaps when we are weak and have to rely on Him for strength, His purposes are more easily accomplished? God’s kingdom is not built by our power and might, but by His Spirit (Zec. 4:6). We can do all things through Christ who strengthens us (Php. 4:13). The key is waiting on the Lord. The Strong’s Concordance gives the primary definition of waiting as: to wait for , hope for, look for and expect. It’s not about us, it’s all about Him. It not about our purposes which change from day to day but about His eternal purpose i.e. the salvation of as many people of this world who will believe and respond to the gospel (John 3:16-17). As the old song says: It will be worth it all, when we see Jesus All trials will seem so small, when we see Him One glimpse of His dear face, all sorrows will erase Keep running in the race until we see Him Isaiah 64:4 For since the beginning of the world [men] have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, [what] he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him. Psalms 31:19 ¶ [Oh] how great [is] thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; [which] thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men! Free Ebooks That You Can Download. An Expository Study on the Book of Colossians The I AMs of Jesus Your thoughts and Inquiries Contact@About-Him.Com Subscribe to this devotional? 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