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Isaiah 40: 25-31

He Gives Strength

 “To whom will you compare me?
    Or who is my equal?” says the Holy One.
²⁶ Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens:
    Who created all these?
He who brings out the starry host one by one
    and calls forth each of them by name.
Because of his great power and mighty strength,
    not one of them is missing.

²⁷ Why do you complain, Jacob?
    Why do you say, Israel,
“My way is hidden from the Lord;
    my cause is disregarded by my God”?
²⁸ 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.
²⁹ He gives strength to the weary
    and increases the power of the weak.
³⁰ Even youths grow tired and weary,
    and young men stumble and fall;
³¹ 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.

Rightly are these chapters from Isaiah called "The Book of Consolation".  It's as if Isaiah were alive today among us, sees what we are going through and reminds us that it is God who will give us the strength we need, who will rescue us and make us able to bear whatever the day brings. And God knows, after I write this or after you read it, we have no idea what's down today's road for us.  It is good medicine to reflect often during the day on verses 29-31and learn to trust more and more on the God who makes such outlandish promises and keeps them!

Bro. Rene