Weariness is rough on us. Not the physical weariness that comes with mowing the lawn or the mental weariness that follows a hard day of choices and thinking. It’s that weariness that comes just before we give up. That feeling of honest desperation…deep lonely, frustrated weariness. Only one man in history has claimed to have an answer for us. He stands with the promise: “Come to me all you who are weary…and I WILL GIVE YOU REST.” (Matt. 11:28)
We may often feel like “throwing in the towel” but wait TOMMY, hold on because: “…they who WAIT on 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.” (Isa. 40:31) In the verses just prior to this Isaiah says: “He gives power to the weak, And to those who have no might He increases strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, And the young men shall utterly fall…” (Isa. 40:29-30)
So what does this mean “WAIT on the Lord”? There are three words used for “WAIT” which represent three levels of our relationship with the Lord:
- TO TRUST WAIT: YACHAL: to be patient, hope, stay, trust: (Job 14:14) “If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I WAIT, till my change come.” This is good and needed, but not the word used to “renew our strength”.
- TO SERVE WAIT: TSABA’: to serve, perform, the sense of summoning one’s wishes: (Num. 8:24) “This is it that belongs unto the Levites: from twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to WAIT upon the service of the tabernacle of the congregation:” This also is good and needed, but not the word used to “renew our strength”
- TO BIND TOGETHER WITH OR BECOME ENTANGLED: QAVAH: to bind together by twisting, to gather together, to entwine, entangle, to become intimate with. (Psa. 27:14) “WAIT on the LORD: be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.” (Psa. 27:7-8) “…When you said, Seek my face; my heart said unto you, Your face, LORD, will I seek.” Seeking our Abba Father’s face, seeking to fully know Him, to become “entangled” in an intimacy with Him will help us with our weariness.
ALL THE POWER OF GOD WILL WORK THROUGH US ACCORDING TO HIS POWER THAT IS AT WORK IN US…
Your Personal Pastor -Bill Stockham