I Worry. God Tells Me Over and Over to Stop.
God knows me really well. It makes sense- He made me.
Anyway, this week has been really trying and I’m just exhausted and anxious about a lot of different things. I’ve found it interesting, therefore, that the same passage keeps popping up in completely different, unrelated places. It’s Isaiah 40, and it’s God telling me over and over to trust Him, and to not fear. Just to bring it back once more, I’m stealing from one of my finals week messages for this week’s blog. (I’m taking this big test this weekend and once that’s over, I’ll actually have time to dedicate to writing better original posts!)
The truth of our imperfect, broken selves is sandwiched by the truth of God’s perfect strength in this passage. God won’t grow tired or weary, and He gives us strength, it says before. Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength, we’re told after. And it’s a powerful strength. The Isaiah passage doesn’t just say that we’re left stumbling and shaky, just surviving. It has those who hope in Lord soaring and running.
“Why do you say, O Jacob,
and complain, O Israel,
‘My way is hidden from the LORD;
my cause is disregarded by my God’?
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.
He gives strength to the weary
and increases the power of the weak.
Even youths grow tired and weary,
and young men stumble and fall;
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. “
Isaiah 40: 27-31
p.s. I want to say thank you, so much, to all of my friends who have been so incredibly supportive and understanding this week. You all are such a huge blessing!!
