Any of you weary out there? I sure am! I'm physically weary from work, from travels, from not getting enough sleep at night, and the list goes on. I'm also emotionally weary of the constant spiritual attacks, the pain, the questions, the uncertainties of life... But thankfully our God never grows weary and this gives me great comfort.
I love today's passages in Isaiah 40, and I claim these promises often. Perhaps they are what you need today too:
"Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint." (Isa. 40:28-31)
What courage and promises in these passages. I also love the following thoughts from Ellen White:
"From the stars that in their trackless course through space, follow from age to age their appointed path, down to the minutest atom, the things of nature obey the Creator’s will. And God cares for everything and sustains everything that he has created. He who upholds the unnumbered worlds throughout immensity, at the same time cares for the wants of the little brown sparrow that sings its humble song without a fear. When men go forth to their daily toil, as when they engage in prayer; when they lie down at night, and when they rise in the morning; when the rich man feasts in his palace, or when the poor man gathers his children about the scanty board, each is tenderly watched by the heavenly Father. No tears are shed that God does not notice. There is no smile that he does not mark.
If we would but fully believe this, all undue anxieties would be dismissed. Our lives would not be filled with disappointment as now; for everything, whether great or small, would be left in the hands of God, who is not perplexed by the multiplicity of cares, or overwhelmed by their weight. We would then enjoy a rest of soul to which many have long been strangers." (Christian Education, p. 54-55)If we would fully believe... we are tenderly watched by our heavenly Father! He's not sleeping on the job. He's got all things in control...
Tomorrow's Reading: Isa. 41-42 and Heb. 5
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