Strength in Struggle

I'm exhausted. I'm tired of thinking, and I'm tired of trying. I'm tired of putting forth my personal effort to do good only to see my efforts fall flat. I'm tired of questioning myself when all my exertion seems for naught, and I'm tired of exerting myself to make a difference that I simply cannot make on my own.

Fortunately, there is hope. Hope that hearts have cried out for long before mine and hope that God has promised thousands of years before my generation walked the earth. Hope that the prophet Isaiah proclaimed to my predecessors who battled with their own broken hearts and weary spirits.

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 40:28-31

I am weary because I've been relying on my own efforts when I should have been calling out for God's supernatural intervention. I am not the only one. In our human frailty, we cannot muster within ourselves the power to do His work well. We grow weary, even in our vigorous youth. God does not grow weary. God has so much strength that He freely lavishes it on the weak, increasing their power and their endurance for life's uphill hike.

Self-pity has no place in a God-empowered heart. The enemy wants us weakened and weary and ineffective. God wants to renew us and strengthen us and increase our potency in a world that desparetly needs potent people to spread the truth. God is the everlasting power source, and He will graciously flood us with His power to further His kingdom without growing weary. We need only to fall to our knees and ask.

Posted by Kim at June 11, 2006 02:51 PM