Sue J Love
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“Why do you say, O Jacob, and assert, O Israel,
‘My way is hidden from the Lord,
And the justice due me escapes the notice of my God’?
Do you not know? Have you not heard?
The Everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth
Does not become weary or tired.
His understanding is inscrutable.
He gives strength to the weary,
And to him who lacks might He increases power.
Though youths grow weary and tired,
And vigorous young men stumble badly,
Yet those who wait for the Lord
Will gain new strength;
They will mount up with wings like eagles,
They will run and not get tired,
They will walk and not become weary.” (Isaiah 40:27-31 NASB’95)
Do you ever feel forgotten by God? Do you ever feel overwhelmed by your circumstances and so you cannot see clearly to see how God fits into what is going on in your life? Do you ever look at the world all around you and stand amazed at all the evil that exists? Does that ever discourage you? Does it all ever feel hopeless to you? Do you have difficulty making sense of it all? And do you wonder, sometimes, why God does not intervene and stop it all?
Do you ever feel as though you just don’t have the strength to keep doing what you are doing? As though you are just going to drop if you have to go one more inch, or one more mile, or one more minute? Are you someone who lets every pain, every hindrance, and every difficult circumstance convince you that you can’t do it, that you can’t go on? You see a hindrance, and so you just back up and retreat, instead of pushing forward?
I know that I have gone down that road many times in my life. And sometimes I may still feel some of those things, but the Lord has taught me much about how I can do in his strength what I cannot do in my own. He has moved me to write these daily devotions regardless of how I feel, and regardless of my circumstances, and even if I have a pounding headache, or a fever, or it feels as though I am at death’s door. He still has me write.
And he has proven to me that his strength is perfect when my strength is gone. And I am not suggesting that we take high risks or that we do anything foolish, but it is true that if the Lord has something that he wants us to do that he will give us the strength and the courage to do it. And Satan will do all in his power to try to convince us that we cannot do it, that we cannot move forward, and he will fill our minds with lots of excuses.
Does God know what is going on in our lives? He absolutely does! He made us. He knows everything about us. He knows us inside and out, and all our whereabouts, and everything that is behind us, and that is ahead of us, and what is taking place in the present in our world. And he knows what the leaders of our nations are up to, and what their plan is for the people, which is not for our good, but for their good, i.e. what they call “good,” anyway.
None of this surprises him. None of what we are going through takes God off-guard. And none of it can take place unless God allows it. And he allows evil to exist. Otherwise he would have to destroy all human life, because we are all born with sin natures, and we all still have the propensity to sin, and we will all be tempted sometimes to sin. But he does set limits, like he did when he gave Satan permission to do what he did to Job and to his family.
And if we read the Scriptures in their full context we will learn that God promised us that we would have to suffer for the sake of the name of Jesus, and for the sake of the gospel, and for the sake of righteousness, like he suffered at the hands of his enemies, and like the saints before us suffered at the hands of their enemies. And he said there would be fires, storms, earthquakes, wars, famines, and the like, and that is what is happening.
[Matthew 5:10-12; Matthew 10:16-25,34-39; Matthew 24:1-51; Luke 6:22-23; Luke 12:49-53; Luke 21:12-17; John 15:18-21; Ephesians 6:10-20; 1 John 2:18-25; Jude 1:17-23; 2 Peter 2:1-22; 2 Peter 3:1-18; 1 Timothy 4:1-5; 2 Timothy 3:1-9; Revelation 6:9-11; Revelation 7:9-17; Revelation 11:1-3; Revelation 12:17; Revelation 13:1-18; Revelation 14:1-13]
So, no matter what you are going through, what trials you are facing, what hardships you are having to endure, what obstacles are standing in your way, in sickness and in health, possessing much or little or nothing, turn to the Lord. Trust him to help you to get through this, even if in the end of it all you die. For if Jesus is your Lord, and you have died with him to sin, and by faith in him obedience to him is your practice, you have eternal life with God.
But if all you have done is give lip service to God, and you have continued in deliberate and habitual sin, as your life course, just living to please your flesh, and so obedience to God is not your practice, then please know that lip service alone is not going to guarantee you heaven when you die. By the grace of God, and in his power, we must all die with him to sin and now walk in obedience to his commands, and eternal life with God will be ours to have.
[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:6-8; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:5-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10]
His Strength Is Perfect
Steven Curtis Chapman
I can do all things
Through Christ who gives me strength
But sometimes I wonder what He can do through me
No great success to show
No glory of my own
Yet in my weakness He is there to let me know..
We can only know
The power that He holds
When we truly see how deep our weakness goes
His strength in us begins
Where ours comes to an end
He hears our humble cry and proves again
His strength is perfect when our strength is gone
He'll carry us when we can't carry on
Raised in His power, the weak become strong
His strength is perfect, His strength is perfect
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He Gives Strength to The Weary
An Original Work / March 31, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
‘My way is hidden from the Lord,
And the justice due me escapes the notice of my God’?
Do you not know? Have you not heard?
The Everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth
Does not become weary or tired.
His understanding is inscrutable.
He gives strength to the weary,
And to him who lacks might He increases power.
Though youths grow weary and tired,
And vigorous young men stumble badly,
Yet those who wait for the Lord
Will gain new strength;
They will mount up with wings like eagles,
They will run and not get tired,
They will walk and not become weary.” (Isaiah 40:27-31 NASB’95)
Do you ever feel forgotten by God? Do you ever feel overwhelmed by your circumstances and so you cannot see clearly to see how God fits into what is going on in your life? Do you ever look at the world all around you and stand amazed at all the evil that exists? Does that ever discourage you? Does it all ever feel hopeless to you? Do you have difficulty making sense of it all? And do you wonder, sometimes, why God does not intervene and stop it all?
Do you ever feel as though you just don’t have the strength to keep doing what you are doing? As though you are just going to drop if you have to go one more inch, or one more mile, or one more minute? Are you someone who lets every pain, every hindrance, and every difficult circumstance convince you that you can’t do it, that you can’t go on? You see a hindrance, and so you just back up and retreat, instead of pushing forward?
I know that I have gone down that road many times in my life. And sometimes I may still feel some of those things, but the Lord has taught me much about how I can do in his strength what I cannot do in my own. He has moved me to write these daily devotions regardless of how I feel, and regardless of my circumstances, and even if I have a pounding headache, or a fever, or it feels as though I am at death’s door. He still has me write.
And he has proven to me that his strength is perfect when my strength is gone. And I am not suggesting that we take high risks or that we do anything foolish, but it is true that if the Lord has something that he wants us to do that he will give us the strength and the courage to do it. And Satan will do all in his power to try to convince us that we cannot do it, that we cannot move forward, and he will fill our minds with lots of excuses.
Does God know what is going on in our lives? He absolutely does! He made us. He knows everything about us. He knows us inside and out, and all our whereabouts, and everything that is behind us, and that is ahead of us, and what is taking place in the present in our world. And he knows what the leaders of our nations are up to, and what their plan is for the people, which is not for our good, but for their good, i.e. what they call “good,” anyway.
None of this surprises him. None of what we are going through takes God off-guard. And none of it can take place unless God allows it. And he allows evil to exist. Otherwise he would have to destroy all human life, because we are all born with sin natures, and we all still have the propensity to sin, and we will all be tempted sometimes to sin. But he does set limits, like he did when he gave Satan permission to do what he did to Job and to his family.
And if we read the Scriptures in their full context we will learn that God promised us that we would have to suffer for the sake of the name of Jesus, and for the sake of the gospel, and for the sake of righteousness, like he suffered at the hands of his enemies, and like the saints before us suffered at the hands of their enemies. And he said there would be fires, storms, earthquakes, wars, famines, and the like, and that is what is happening.
[Matthew 5:10-12; Matthew 10:16-25,34-39; Matthew 24:1-51; Luke 6:22-23; Luke 12:49-53; Luke 21:12-17; John 15:18-21; Ephesians 6:10-20; 1 John 2:18-25; Jude 1:17-23; 2 Peter 2:1-22; 2 Peter 3:1-18; 1 Timothy 4:1-5; 2 Timothy 3:1-9; Revelation 6:9-11; Revelation 7:9-17; Revelation 11:1-3; Revelation 12:17; Revelation 13:1-18; Revelation 14:1-13]
So, no matter what you are going through, what trials you are facing, what hardships you are having to endure, what obstacles are standing in your way, in sickness and in health, possessing much or little or nothing, turn to the Lord. Trust him to help you to get through this, even if in the end of it all you die. For if Jesus is your Lord, and you have died with him to sin, and by faith in him obedience to him is your practice, you have eternal life with God.
But if all you have done is give lip service to God, and you have continued in deliberate and habitual sin, as your life course, just living to please your flesh, and so obedience to God is not your practice, then please know that lip service alone is not going to guarantee you heaven when you die. By the grace of God, and in his power, we must all die with him to sin and now walk in obedience to his commands, and eternal life with God will be ours to have.
[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:6-8; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:5-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10]
His Strength Is Perfect
Steven Curtis Chapman
I can do all things
Through Christ who gives me strength
But sometimes I wonder what He can do through me
No great success to show
No glory of my own
Yet in my weakness He is there to let me know..
We can only know
The power that He holds
When we truly see how deep our weakness goes
His strength in us begins
Where ours comes to an end
He hears our humble cry and proves again
His strength is perfect when our strength is gone
He'll carry us when we can't carry on
Raised in His power, the weak become strong
His strength is perfect, His strength is perfect
Caution: This link may contain ads
He Gives Strength to The Weary
An Original Work / March 31, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
