Haven’t you been told from the start?
Don’t you understand how the earth is set up?
22 He who sits above the circle of the earth —
for whom its inhabitants appear like grasshoppers —
stretches out the heavens like a curtain,
spreads them out like a tent to live in.
23 He reduces princes to nothing,
the rulers of the earth to emptiness.
24 Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown,
scarcely their stem taken root in the ground,
when he blows on them, they dry up,
and the whirlwind carries them off like straw.
25 “With whom, then, will you compare me?
With whom am I equal?” asks the Holy One.
26 Turn your eyes to the heavens!
See who created these?
He brings out the army of them in sequence,
summoning each by name.
Through his great might and his massive strength,
not one of them is missing.
27 Why do you complain, Ya‘akov;
why do you say, Isra’el,
“My way is hidden from Adonai,
my rights are ignored by my God”?
28 Haven’t you known, haven’t you heard
that the everlasting God, Adonai,
the Creator of the ends of the earth,
does not grow tired or weary?
His understanding cannot be fathomed.
29 He invigorates the exhausted,
he gives strength to the powerless.
30 Young men may grow tired and weary,
even the fittest may stumble and fall;
31 but those who hope in Adonai will renew their strength,
they will soar aloft as with eagles’ wings;
when they are running they won’t grow weary,
when they are walking they won’t get tired.
"Our Vital God" by Author: Duane BrushThe God of the Bible is vital in every sense of the word. He has always existed and will continue to exist eternally. His name reveals His vital existence: “I AM WHO I AM” (Exodus 3:14). His purpose is redemptive, His actions are wholly righteous, and His love is powerfully transformative. Unlike the impersonal, blind forces of materialism, the God of the Bible is actively engaged in existence at every level.
Such a vital God imparts vitality–renewed strength for endurance–to those who wait in hope on Him. The God who never grows tired or weary “gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak” (Isaiah 40:28).
This promise was demonstrated on the day of Pentecost, when Christ’s followers received divine power to be His witnesses by the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. This continues to happen today, wherever believers wait in hope for the vitalizing and revitalizing presence of the everlasting God.
The Hymn for Today: "THE MEANS OF GRACE" by Charles Wesley and John Wesley
1. God of all-alluring grace,
Thee through Jesus Christ we praise,
Father, in Thy Spirit's power,
Thee we for Thy grace adore.
2. Sent in Jesu's mighty name,
Grace with God from heaven came;
Grace on all mankind bestow'd,
Grace, the life and power of God.
Us, whoe'er the gift receive,
3. It enables to believe,
Helps our soul's infirmity
Still to live, and die with Thee.
In the means Thou hast enjoin'd,
All who seek the grace shall find;
4. In the prayer, the fast, the word,
In the supper of their Lord.
Thus the saints of ancient days
Waited, and obtain'd Thy grace;
Drank the blood by Jesus shed,
5. Daily on His body fed.
Thus the whole assembly join'd,
Jesus in the midst to find,
Prayer presenting to the skies,
Morn and evening sacrifice.
6. Jointly praying, and apart,
Each to Thee pour'd out his heart,
Solemnly Thy grace implored,
Still continued in the word:
Search'd the Scriptures day and night,
7. (All their comfort and delight
There to catch Thy Spirit's power,)
Heard, and read, and lived them o'er.
Twice a week they fasted then,
Purest of the sons of men,
8. Choicest vessels of Thy grace,
Patterns to the faithful race.
Still to us they speak, though dead,
Bid us in their footsteps tread,
Bid us never dare remove
9. From the channels of Thy love.
Never will we hence depart,
Till our all in all Thou art,
Till from outward means we fly,
Till we on Thy bosom die.
Thought for Today:"but those who hope in Adonai will renew their strength,
they will soar aloft as with eagles’ wings;
when they are running they won’t grow weary,
when they are walking they won’t get tired." [Isaiah 40:31]
Please pray:
For the many homeless in the United States and Canada who seek to be loved as people while being resoected as people.
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