Today we take a look at Isaiah 40.  It starts with a prophetic reference to John the Baptist and goes on to a famous section on the power and majesty and goodness of God.  Let’s take a look at that portion of the chapter together today. 

Do you not know?
    Have you not heard?
Has it not been told you from the beginning?
    Have you not understood since the earth was founded?

He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth,
    and its people are like grasshoppers.
He stretches out the heavens like a canopy,
    and spreads them out like a tent to live in.

He brings princes to naught
    and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing.

No sooner are they planted,
    no sooner are they sown,
    no sooner do they take root in the ground,
than he blows on them and they wither,
    and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.

“To whom will you compare me?
    Or who is my equal?” says the Holy One.

Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens:
    Who created all these?
He who brings out the starry host one by one
    and calls forth each of them by name.
Because of his great power and mighty strength,
    not one of them is missing.

Why do you complain, Jacob?
    Why do you say, 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.

I particularly appreciate the last section as I get older.  Perhaps I am remembering things differently then they were but I can recall never getting tired.  I could go and go and I was fine.  Now sometimes I wake up tired.  I find I feel tired and weary a lot more often then I used to.  We serve a God who does not get tired or weary.  He gives us strength when we put our hope in Him.  He is our strength when ours runs out.  He tells us we will soar on wings like eagles.  We will run and not grow weary.  May we all run this race of life well knowing that God goes with us and He is the source of our strength.  He never gets tired and is there to carry us when we do.  Rest today in the power and strength of our great God. 

In His Grip,

Pastor Dave