Friday, March 5, 2010

My favourite verses: Isaiah 40:31

“They that wait upon the Lord will renew their strength. They will rise up on wings like eagles, they shall run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.”

This verse has been my favourite since childhood, primarily because I wanted to be a pilot and so the ‘rising on wings like eagles’ appealed for that reason. But the rest of the verse has since come to mean a lot more.
Firstly, when we wait on the Lord – serving Him – we find renewal of strength. Living a Christian life in a world that has by and large rejected God, takes a lot of strength to keep pressing on in the Lord. But the strength that we find in Him enables us to soar above it all.
The second part of the verse shows a progression. We obtain strength to soar like eagles. But when that strength fades, we can still run. When that strength fades, we can still walk. The point is, no matter what happens, we can and must keep moving forward – in the strength that we find from serving the Lord.

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