Friday,
April 24, 2026
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, 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 is 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
