Wait upon the Lord

Some Bible verses are so beautiful that reading them causes us to lose sight of the beauty of the verses around them. For example, Isaiah 40:31

They who wait upon 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.

Today, I want to help you fall in love with the verses around this verse. Let’s go all the way back to verse 25.

The passage starts with God asking,

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

To help us see the incomparableness of God, He challenges us to:

Verse 26: 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.

So folks, if you want to see the power of God, look to the skies on any clear night. The sky lights up like that special neighborhood at Christmas. Actually, that comparison does not do justice to the glory of the heavens. God made the nightly light show. It is always there.

Next, he addresses those who complain that God does not help them.

27 Why do you complain? Why do you say,

“My way is hidden from the LORD; my cause is disregarded by my God”?

Some believers felt that having God in their lives was not helping them with their struggles. For those who’ve ever felt this way, God continues:

28 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
is beyond comprehension.

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;

But those who wait upon 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 whole context of this verse is telling us to simply trust God. We might not understand why things are happening as they are, but he does, and in the end, He will do what is best for us.
Lonnie Davis