“WAIT FOR THE LORD!”

 

Isaiah 40:27-31                 (ESV)

    “[27] Why do you say, O Jacob,

        and speak, O Israel,

    “My way is hidden from the LORD,

        and my right is disregarded by my GOD”? 

    [28] Have you not known? Have you not heard?

    The LORD is the everlasting GOD,

        the CREATOR of the ends of the earth.

    HE DOES NOT faint or grow weary;

        HIS understanding is unsearchable. 

    [29] HE GIVES POWER TO THE FAINT,

        and to him who has no might HE increases strength. 

    [30] Even youths shall faint and be weary,

        and young men shall fall exhausted; 

    [31] but THEY WHO “WAIT FOR THE LORD” SHALL renew their strength;

        they SHALL mount up with wings like eagles;

    they SHALL run and not be weary;

        they SHALL walk and not faint.”

Recognizing that humanity, no matter how successful, nor how strong, WILL ONE DAY “expire”!  That word was used in the medical profession when I was a youngster.  There are babies who don’t even make it to birth, and there are people that live to be past one hundred years of age!  One thing is for certain, and that is we have to “WAIT FOR THE LORD” for everything from birth to dying!!!

My recollection of my recovery from the Brain Hemorrhage is the best example that I can utilize.  The blood vessel that broke was in the WORD RECALL portion of my brain.  I had a propensity for spreading myself thin, VERY THIN, and it was “put on hold” for about two years!  I couldn’t WAIT for the ability to get back to “normal”???  What I DID NOT comprehend was that GOD, VERY KINDLY AND GENTLY, was slowing down my frantic activity and replacing it with TRUE SUBSTANCE AND MEANING!!!

ALMIGHTY GOD HAS A PURPOSE for every life HE has CREATED!  This humble servant had to experience the calamity of a broken blood vessel in the WORD RECALL section of my brain to REALIZE (years later!) that I was trying to remain BUSY for THE LORD!?!  

If you aren’t what GOD requires to perform your assignment, HE CAN DRAMATICALLY CHANGE you!!!  HE doesn’t need to get “your permission”!!!   HE doesn’t need ANYONE to agree with HIS PLAN!!!  Whether you like what HIS PLAN is or not, we can “WAIT FOR THE LORD”, or HE can remove us!!!  HIS PLAN WILL BE COMPLETED!!!!