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40:28 Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary, his understanding is unsearchable. 40:29 He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. 40:30 Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; 40:31 but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint. yay i love this verse. when i ran cross country i wrote it on my hand before every race. God taught me a lot through that--to persevere and not give up, to stick with it and keep going. it was the hardest thing ever, as i'm not that athletic, but i never walked a single step in any race and completed every race i ran.
because He was my strength.
the remarkable thing is that for the last two races, i couldn't run at all during practice, and not even during warm-ups before the race, because my knees started to have problems. they were terribly sore and at one point i tried to push and keep going and they literally just gave out on me and i collapsed. but when it came time for the race, God gave me the strength and ability to run through even those last two... after the first time, someone said that it was adrenaline. but for my last race, i had no determination or excitement about the race--only that i made up my mind i was going to do it because God was my strength. the first twenty steps were painful, but God took it away and carried me even through that race. i didn't walk a step or stop for even a moment.
i wish i could say i held on to these lessons really well, but i haven't, in fact i didn't even remember all those details until just now when i thought of it. it couldn't have come at a better time though. there's a lot of growing God's been doing in me and it's definitely something i need to get through these trials.
He is good. oh so good. |
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