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Strength Given in the Waiting

How Isaiah 40 builds up to the promise about eagles

Today's Focus

The promise of renewed strength comes at the end of a chapter that spends most of its length describing who God is. He does not faint or grow weary, and his understanding is unsearchable. The renewal is promised to those who wait for the Lord, and it is set against the tiredness of the young and strong.

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The everlasting God does not grow weary.
Isaiah 40:28
He gives power to the faint.
Isaiah 40:29
Those who wait for the Lord renew their strength.
Isaiah 40:31

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Questions this reading raises

How should I pray?
When the disciples asked this, Jesus answered with a pattern rather than a technique. Pray to your Father, in private, without performance and without needing many words, because he already knows what you need. The prayer he gave begins with God's name, kingdom and will, then asks for bread, forgiveness and protection. Scripture adds that we may bring everything, that the Spirit helps our weakness, and that we can ask with confidence when we ask according to God's will.
What does the Bible say about work?
Scripture presents work as something given before sin entered the world, made harder by the curse, and redeemed in Christ so that ordinary labour is done for the Lord rather than for people. It commands diligence, honest dealing, rest, and provision for one's household, and it refuses to make a person's worth depend on their job.
Who is Jesus?
Scripture introduces Jesus of Nazareth as a real man in real history who is also the eternal Word through whom everything was made. He is the promised Christ of Israel, the Son of God, crucified under Pontius Pilate, raised on the third day, and now confessed as Lord. The Bible never presents him only as a teacher, and it never lets him remain a private opinion. It records him asking his own followers the question and waiting for their answer.
How do I forgive someone who hurt me?
Biblical forgiveness is the decision to release a debt you have every right to collect, made because God released yours. It is not pretending the wrong was small, and it does not always mean reconciliation or renewed trust. It usually begins as an act of obedience and becomes a feeling later, often much later.

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Questions this reading raises

How should I pray?

What does the Bible say about work?

Who is Jesus?

How do I forgive someone who hurt me?

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