August 15, 2013 - God's Strength

Yea - vacation on the horizon! Not sure how I feel about no internet and no cell phone for 8 days, but that's what I have starting Sunday. I am, however, looking forward to staring at the mountains, lake, and skies and just sitting quietly before the Lord. I can only imagine coffee, toes in the lake, my Bible and some worship music. Love it! I wanted to bring a passage of scripture this morning from Isaiah that I know is familiar. However, I find that sometimes when life's issues are constant we can tend to forget that God is present in the good and the bad and that He really wants us to accept the offer of His strength. In my own might, I can survive 3 seconds. How about you? But with God's strength, the joy and energy of my youth comes alive again. We need that! More and more the challenges with food costs, health care costs, availability of whole foods, preparation time for meals that are healthy, understanding what REAL truth about our food is........these get wearisome. It's not designed to. Read this: Isaiah 40:29 The Message (MSG) 27-31 Why would you ever complain, O Jacob, or, whine, Israel, saying, “God has lost track of me. He doesn’t care what happens to me”? Don’t you know anything? Haven’t you been listening? God doesn’t come and go. God lasts. He’s Creator of all you can see or imagine. He doesn’t get tired out, doesn’t pause to catch his breath. And he knows everything,inside and out. He energizes those who get tired, gives fresh strength to dropouts. For even young people tire and drop out, young folk in their prime stumble and fall. But those who wait upon God get fresh strength. They spread their wings and soar like eagles, They run and don’t get tired, they walk and don’t lag behind. I love this passage! The Hebrew rendering for the word wait is "to wait, look eagerly for, hope, expect." There is an expectation and then God responds with strength. Come on fam - Let's expect that God can give us all the strength we need to be healthy REGARDLESS of the variables this life tosses our way. I know my strength has limits - I look eagerly for His. How about you? PK