What chances are you willing to take?
What risk is so daring that it carries you to the edge?
At what point are you walking the cusp of the black hole, skirting the tornado, on the knife edge of disaster and needing help that seems impossible to find?
Isaiah 40:30-31 (ESV) says:
“Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for 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.”
Here are 2 Risks from Isaiah we find in this passage:
Risk No. 1: “Even youths shall faint and be weary.”
Self-assurance and boldness aren’t always enough.
Risk No. 2: “Young men shall fall exhausted.”
Strong shoulders and strength of purpose will let us down.
This passage also gives us 4 Rescues from Isaiah that can lift us up in Christ:
Rescue No. 1: “They … shall renew their strength.”
God’s resources will become ours, flowing like honey to replenish us.
Rescue No. 2: “They shall mount up with wings like eagles.”
We will soar above our problems, becoming one with the Father.
Rescue No. 3: “They shall run and not be weary.”
Problems can pound us one after another, and we will brush them off.
Rescue No. 4: “They shall walk and not faint.”
We are in this for the long haul. God is our strength of purpose and perseverance.
How are we rescued from the risks and perils of life? We can find that in this verse, also.
“They who wait for the Lord …”
There’s our answer. If we dedicate our lives to God, immerse ourselves in the Word, and take time in prayer to let God speak to us, our strength will be renewed. We will fly like the eagle, run the race tirelessly, and never be weak in the onslaught of our journey with Jesus.
Okay, Bible out. Let’s get involved in God and be strengthened by our time spent with him.
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