DAY FOURTEEN – Thursday, March 4, 2021
Isaiah 40:28-31
Have you not known? Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He does not faint or grow weary;
his understanding is unsearchable.
He gives power to the faint,
and strengthens the powerless.
Even youths will faint and be weary,
and the young will fall exhausted;
but those 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.
I wonder how many of us have had the experience of waiting for the Lord over this past year?
I remember one of our children coming home from their first day of kindergarten and when they there were asked about their day they said, “There was an awful lot of waiting!” It is interesting to speculate how much of our lives is spent waiting. Waiting in lines, waiting for people to come for dinner, waiting for a pandemic to end. If, as Isaiah suggests, waiting just seems to be a part of our walk of faith, it may be practical and wise to turn all this “day to day waiting time” into to “waiting for God time”.
Even when grounded, we are invited to use our eagle eyes to look for God in the world and in our lives. In this waiting, it is perfectly okay to declare our weariness to God and it also perfectly okay to expect that God will renew us.
In addition to keen vision, eagles spend a lot of time soaring. They save their own energy, and instead rely on wind currents to keep them held up. That is an awesome image for people of faith. Even as we wait, we can pray to be lifted up, held up by the Spirit of God. We can trust that we are not just being held up so we won’t stumble, but we are being lifted up so that we might soar. I pray that we can use our waiting time to continue to become more aware of the “wind beneath our feet” and to trust in the sustaining presence of God in our own lives and in the life of our community.
Elaine Hall
Isaiah 40:28-31
Have you not known? Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He does not faint or grow weary;
his understanding is unsearchable.
He gives power to the faint,
and strengthens the powerless.
Even youths will faint and be weary,
and the young will fall exhausted;
but those 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.
I wonder how many of us have had the experience of waiting for the Lord over this past year?
I remember one of our children coming home from their first day of kindergarten and when they there were asked about their day they said, “There was an awful lot of waiting!” It is interesting to speculate how much of our lives is spent waiting. Waiting in lines, waiting for people to come for dinner, waiting for a pandemic to end. If, as Isaiah suggests, waiting just seems to be a part of our walk of faith, it may be practical and wise to turn all this “day to day waiting time” into to “waiting for God time”.
Even when grounded, we are invited to use our eagle eyes to look for God in the world and in our lives. In this waiting, it is perfectly okay to declare our weariness to God and it also perfectly okay to expect that God will renew us.
In addition to keen vision, eagles spend a lot of time soaring. They save their own energy, and instead rely on wind currents to keep them held up. That is an awesome image for people of faith. Even as we wait, we can pray to be lifted up, held up by the Spirit of God. We can trust that we are not just being held up so we won’t stumble, but we are being lifted up so that we might soar. I pray that we can use our waiting time to continue to become more aware of the “wind beneath our feet” and to trust in the sustaining presence of God in our own lives and in the life of our community.
Elaine Hall
