Isaiah 40:31
“But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.”
Our text verse is very popular with “religious” folks today. Everyone likes to make the claim that they are waiting on the Lord in some aspect of their life. Yet, where do we really find ourselves? On a daily basis? Are we truly waiting on the Lord for what He has for us or are we trying to push things to fit our wants?
1 John 5:14-15 tells us if we have confidence in the Lord and “we ask any thing according to His will, He will hear us”. Maybe that is the problem? Do we have that confidence in the Lord? Do we have faith that He will answer our prayers? Are we asking according to His will or our own? Are we waiting on His answer to our prayers or are we pushing for what we want?
Remember Abraham and Sarah? Remember the promise of a son that God made to them? They got tired of waiting for that promise to come so they tried to push things along. Sarah gave Abraham her handmaiden to bare him a son. How well did that turn out? Not only was that son not what God promised but the seed of that son would be a thorn in the side of God's people till the end of time.
God would eventually give Abraham and Sarah the son He promised and that son's seed would go on to be the Nation of Israel whom God himself favored over all the nations on the earth. And what a history we read of that great nation in the Old Testament. Look at all the times they tried not to follow God's plan for them. All down through their history we see where God brought trials and persecutions on them for not following Him.
Are we any better than the Nation of Israel? Do we think because we are a member of one of the Lord's true churches that our every prayer deserves the answer we want? Do we have the faith to wait upon the Lord for the answer to our prayers? Do we have the confidence in the Lord that we should have?
Why does the Lord make us wait? Could it be so we will take the time to study His Word and commune with Him, strengthening our faith even more in Him? How else do “we mount up with wings as eagles; run, and not be weary; and walk, and not faint.”
How often we forget Romans 8:28: “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”
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