Isaiah 40:30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
People are searching for God. They are searching for someone who is greater than temselves, their problems, their difficulties and their sin. They want solace, shelter and a firm ground to stand on (ie someone who never changes). As the Psalmist says in Psalms 61: 2 "From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I (lead me to a rock that is too high for me - JPS Bible)."
And sadly or rather fortunately, all their attempts to got to God is going vain, they become faint in their search, weary with their their works and eventually fall in this widerness, where the vultures of the sky behold very act of faintness, and devour them.
And sadly or rather fortunately, all their attempts to got to God is going vain, they become faint in their search, weary with their their works and eventually fall in this widerness, where the vultures of the sky behold very act of faintness, and devour them.
Isaiah 40:31 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.
We then do we have the confidence to stand, and not only stand but to fly and run. This is because the Lord, God of all the earth (ADONI) has has sent His Son. His Son has bought was if a price. Not 1 hour, not 2 hours, not 5 hours, not 24 hours, but for 72 hours God the creator of Hell and Heaven had to bear the sight of The Holy One going through the fire that never quenchs. The Son of God took the worst punshment that the whole of earth could give to a sinner, though he was without sin. Glory to God. The One who knew no sin, was made sin. It is like saying, the one who knew not the smell of a rotten dead rat, was the very stink of the rotten dead rat, such that man may dispise. Yes, with the very blood of Christ that fell from the cross, gave me a badge, rather made me a badge which had nothing more than the filling and covering of the Blood of Christ. When with this badge when I enter God's throne, dare the gaurds take me away from the courts of the King. When I recognize the fact that I am nothing and can do nothing (no works of righteousness, no thoughts of holyness, no words of peace), yes, it here that the Lord, God of Hosts (God of the Heavenly Army) renews my strength, gives me wings of faith, to fly. Gives me the grace to run and not go weary, and the peace of the most high to walk and not faint. Yes, this is what Isaish was talking about, (Isaiah 40:29) "He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength."
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