Here I Am Lord
This months blog series is all about getting back to the basics. Last week My friend and assistant Kieran wrote an incredible blog (go back and read it’s so good). Today I want to jump into Isaiah 40 and press pause on a verse I have heard for years but today it took on new meaning for me.
“But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on the wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.” Isaiah 40:31
There were 2 things that jumped off the page and I want to share them with you.
- But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength
Hope is a word that we throw around in sentences like “I hope I get to go there”, or “I hope my team
Wins”. We attach Hope to an outcome that we desire. As we press into Jesus by placing our hope into only Him we begin to remove anything that has our undivided attention. When we divide our hearts to things like our future, relationship, dream jobs or even our kids we begin to fix our eyes them and we lose site of Gods sovereignty and exhaust ourselves or walk in defeat. I truly believe that whatever we are gazing upon I can almost guarantee our hope is tangled up in it.
What are you gazing upon?
- They will run and not grow weary.
I cant fathom this because I hate running. I recently was in Honduras on a mission trip and we walked up some pretty steep mountains to proclaim the good news of Jesus . I would have to walk ahead of the group just so I could get my breathing under control before I went to a house to share Jesus. When I think about the moments I had on that mountain top and the energy to finish climbing I want to shout YES YES YES on this part of the verse. Sweet friend when we are pressing into Jesus by running full force in the direction of His truth there is an unexplainable push to finish.
Weary is defined by Webster as this; exhausted in strength, endurance, vigor, or freshness.
Goodness I have gone through seasons & days of feeling weary. No strength, no desire and def no freshness. But if I’m honest my heart was divided. I wanted to feel differently and I wanted things to be different and I parked my thoughts in the middle of what I didn’t have and the energy I didn’t possess and exhaustion set in.
Getting back to the basics starts with admitting the areas of our hearts that aren’t fully surrendered.
Are you tired friend? Are you ready to see things differently?
I have learned that renewal isn’t always an outward physical strength but instead a strength within that causes you to keep standing, keep moving forward and to keep saying “here I am Lord”.
Repentance realigns our hearts
Surrender stirs obedience in us
Obedience creates movement
& Moving toward Jesus will always RENEW our ministries, our passions, our relationships while giving us the strength to keep going and y’all must Keep going because we posses the HOPE the world needs.
