Growing Weary

 Isaiah 40: 28-31

Don’t you know? Haven’t you heard?

    The Lord is the everlasting God,

    the creator of the ends of the earth.

    He doesn’t grow tired or weary.

His understanding is beyond human reach,

     giving power to the tired

    and reviving the exhausted.

Youths will become tired and weary,

    young men will certainly stumble;

    but those who hope in the Lord

    will renew their strength;

    they will fly up on wings like eagles;

    they will run and not be tired;

    they will walk and not be weary.

If you would, read the passage above more carefully.  A few items that caught my eye.

1. The Lord does not grow weary.  An excellent faith to remember.
2. However, youth and young men, undoubtedly the most energetic among us (unless you consider young women🙂 ), will grow weary.  They will stumble and become tired.
3. God will give them strength.

Please don't read this passage and think it means that we should ignore our weariness.  God knows we grow weary and tired.  That we stumble and fall.  Do remember that only God does not grow weary, and we are not God.

We can rely on God to renew us, to lift us up, and help us to fly again, but we should not think that our weariness or stumbling actions are weakness.  They are not - they are humanity.  We are designed by God to need to rest.  The only sin here is to think we are God, and that we will not grow tired.