What would it look like to have everlasting strength? Can you consider what it would be like to run and not get tired. To walk and not feel faint?

I have two grandsons and the best image that comes to mind is being able to bottle up the everlasting energy of my three year old grandson. But even he at the end of a long day of play gets zapped.

Have you found yourself zapped in the battles of life? Have you run the last mile and found that your legs will not carry you another step? Are you leaning over with your hands on your knees trying to hold your head up but dry heaving and feeling light headed.

Not a pretty sight but accurate in this race of life. There are circumstances in life that drain us. People that have exhausted us mentally and emotionally. You may be begging God, please take this cup, and hearing back from Him that “my strength is enough”.

Consider this passage found in Isaiah 40.

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.
29 He gives strength to the weary
    and increases the power of the weak.
30 Even youths grow tired and weary,
    and young men stumble and fall;
31 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.

The Word of the Lord reminds me that even the youth grow tired. Yes, by the end of the night my grandsons will collapse and fall asleep. Yes, you and I will be zapped by the mental stress of the day. You may be exhausted by the treatments you have taken and the diagnosis that the doctor have given. There is hope. God gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.

As the writer of Isaiah says: Do you not know and have you not heard, we have access to an everlasting strength. Yes, we can soar on the wings like eagles. We can run our race without being zapped and walk until the end of our journey and not be faint.

My life’s goal is to live well and at the appointed time to die well. If you find yourself dry heaving on the side of life’s highway. Sip the living water of the Holy Spirit. Wipe the sweat from your eyes. Fix your gaze on the author and finisher of your race. You are not running alone. You are flying on the wings of the master who has an everlasting strength.