He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. Isaiah 40:29
This is how God acts in the lives of his own people when we feel our strength is depleted and our faith is burning low. He gives power and increases strength! How does God do this?
Remember, God doesn’t faint or grow weary (40:28). So the way he gives strength to the weary is that he gives himself to you. This is not some zapping with power that moves an exhausted Christian into bionic overdrive. The effect of this strength is that God’s people keep pressing on. They keep running. They keep walking.
“We have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies” (2 Cor. 4:7-10).
Paul says about his own experience, “Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ. For this I toil, struggling with all his energy that he powerfully works within me” (Col. 1:28-29).
The energy of God does not make him feel that he is soaring above the clouds. No! He says, “I toil! I labor! I sometimes feel discouraged and exhausted. But here’s why I don’t give up. Here’s why I keep struggling on… God puts the ability to do that in me.”
Are you feeling weary today? Ask God to strengthen you.
