Strength From The Omnipotent

“Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, [that] the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? [there is] no searching of his understanding. He giveth power to the faint; and to [them that have] no might he increaseth strength.” (Isa 40:28-29 AV)

The preface to stating the omnipotence of God is important here.  God is everlasting.  He is eternally present and therefore indestructible.  If He exists eternally, there is nothing that can cause His existence to cease.  Next, Isaiah uses the title LORD.  This is the proper name of God.  In Hebrew, it is written Jehovah.  The name means the self-existent one.  He needs nothing to exist.  Put that together with everlasting and we learn that God exists in eternity by His own might.  He has no beginning and will have no end.  He is able to do this because His strength has no limits.  The manifestation of this eternal strength and existence is the entire material creation.  A God who can create more than is humanly possible to understand must surely possess all strength.  Upon these truths we can rest on the promise of strength from the LORD.

Not until you are faced with the battle of a lifetime will you ever realize just how reliant on the strength of the LORD we become.  These trials of faith come several times of an entire lifetime.  At times, we wonder if this is possible.  At times the water is so deep, and the sun has been dimmed that we wonder if God could ever strengthen in the midst of trials.  Some trials remind be of being lost at sea.  Some trials are like floating on a piece of wreckage, and all one can see is water.  The sun overhead, once seen as a comfort, is no as beast that seems to be focused right on you.  Every small sound is a flicker of hope.  Even the seagulls overhead are seen as a moniker of land somewhere nearby.  But you don’t know if you are floating closer or further away.  Hearing a whale or other vocal fish sounds like a boat horn no matter how far the stretch.  But it is not.  There is no fresh water.  There is no food.  It is just you and the open water.  Your soul wonders if you’ll make it out of there.  How will we go on one more day?  There is no strength.  There is no purpose.  There is no plan.  One simply exists from one day to the next.  That is the biggest goal one has.  These times cry out for the strength of our Creator.

Running on empty does not mean strength is unavailable.  Look at the promise above.  When we are ready to faint and have no might, Jehovah can bring us back.  When we cannot go on another moment, the Spirit is able to help us along our path.  When we face the hardest times of life, God is more than capable and willing to bear our burden with us.  It is good to be all tapped out.  In our weakness, He is made strong.  As long as we survive in our own might, God remains distant.  Come to the end of oneself, God becomes very real.  It is unfortunate that life has to be this way, but we tend to draw closer to the Creator the more adversity that we face.  The promise in Isaiah is a real one.  It is a sure one.