Welcome to today’s blog! Listen to the refreshing voice of God!
Isaiah 40 27 Why do you complain, Jacob? Why do you say, Israel, “My way is hidden from the Lord; my cause is disregarded by my God”? 28 Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. 29 He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. 30 Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; 31 but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
As I look at this amazing section of scripture, think about this week’s theme of “scarcity –vs- abundance thinking” and my personal life journey I see life giving connections. As I let God speak through these words He is showing me the root of my scarcity thinking when it happens. Perhaps when I get that “overwhelmed”, “depressive”, “in a bit of a funk” kind of feeling I am experiencing a version of vs.27, “Why do you complain, delton? Why do you say, delton, “My way is hidden from the Lord; my cause is disregarded by my God”?
I get down, my thinking goes south into scarcity mode and I become less fully alive when my heart, mind will and strength forget that the “Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. 29 He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. 30 Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; 31 but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength.”
I begin to struggle in this life when I go it “alone” – when life and all it dishes out is bigger than I am - but that is not the end of the story – I get to “hope in the Lord” and have my strength renewed.
That is so exciting for me! At any moment as I sense myself shifting to “scarcity” thinking I get to stop, remember that I am not alone, I get to hope in the Lord and enter by faith into a whole new set of possibilities – an “abundance’ of possibilities. With God in the picture in every situation a plethora of resources and possibilities come into play. The fact that I have a God who has graciously reached out to me and my world is refreshing to me this day!
How about you? What is this amazing word from God saying to you?
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