HE DOESN’T GROW WEARY!

HE DOESN’T GROW WEARY!

Isa 40:28

28 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.

The office worker trudges home in a rumpled suit and dragging a stuffed briefcase. He wonders if anyone can even comprehend how wearying it is to spend a day in endless and futile negotiations with obstinate people. The construction worker returns home scorched by the sun and beaten by the blows that he himself has delivered. Covered by grime and emptied of energy he reflects on how little was accomplished.

The Hebrew word for “weary” is yaw-gah and means “to gasp” or to become exhausted. The everlasting God does not yaw-gah! He does not grow weary. He is the battery back-up in our every power failure.

The disciples found themselves ministering to many, listening, counseling, and healing. They listened to unresolved human conflict and then gave advice. They healed and felt the pain of others. Virtue went out of them. Each human problem, though none were theirs, drained them. They worked through lunch!

Mark 6:31-32

31 And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while: for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.

32 And they departed into a desert place by ship privately.

The desert place was not a place in the desert because they reached it by ship! No, the desert place was a place without people! It was a place without demands and duties although the duties remained and the demands cried out. They withdrew for renewal.

Our “quiet time” is that desert place whether it is in the morning before others rise or at night after others have retired; it is a place where we get alone with the everlasting God. Every believer needs this time to reflect, to worship and acknowledge God and to be refreshed. What a tremendous resource we have in the everlasting God.

Dear Lord, many of us begin this day still weary from yesterday’s labor. Renew our strength. Some have worked until their physical strength was nearly gone. Renew their strength. Some have cared for others until their spirits are numb. Let them mount up with wings. Let them run and not be weary. We trust in Thee, everlasting God. AMEN