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Devotions Wings as Eagles- 8/3/21

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Got up kind of late today. I need to hammer in a time to go to bed and wake up.

Hello. I hope you are doing well.

How easy is it do you think to depend on your own strength versus God’s? I think it is too easy.

Especially when you have been young and think you’ve “got it” and can pretty much do anything, have you realized now how wrong you were?

And how easy is it to wait on things in your life if you hope in God’s timing?

Waiting on Him is seeking Him on what can happen in your life. Waiting on answers for your life on things hoped for.

Listen to this verse from Isaiah:

But those who wait on 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. Isaiah 40:31

This is a very well-known inspirational verse.

To be renewed in strength, the strength only He can give us through knowing Christ.

But I wondered what exactly could it all mean. So I looked up some context and this is what I found.

For most of the rest of the verse it said about mounting up with wings as eagles “This is the measure of strength the LORD gives us – strength to soar above everything else.”

We can “soar” over our situations knowing He is in control and to live depending on Him which is His strength.

They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint. “This is the purpose of the strength the LORD gives us – strength to move forward and progress for Him. It isn’t strength to show off, but strength to go forward in.”

To live for Him is to be shown His strength by Him. We must day to day see ourselves developing in His love and mercy through Christ so that we not fall again and again into peril for our hearts.

Following God is the one option that leads only to life everlasting and that can only be helped by other fervent followers of Christ.

God, may we find our strength in You alone so that we will see You in our lives impacting us daily. Amen.

Strength in the Lord- 7/31/21

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To “seek His face always” is good advice. I must do that!

Where does strength greater than us come from? Isn’t it too easy to only seek the Lord after certain things?

I know that I have done that time and time again. Too often I don’t think of talking to Him at nearly all times, it seems only after I fail do I seek Him in many cases.

It is good to look to Him afterwards but shouldn’t we seek Him always with all our hearts?

After all He has done so much for us and impacted our lives in amazing ways we should have a commune with Him and talk to Him in prayer and listen to what He wants for us by reading His word.

He wants us to draw strength from Him so that He can impact our lives.

He wants us to look to Him so that He is glorified should we need to stand up for Him or share the gospel so that more come to be family in Christ. But we mustn’t forget that to live for Him is no once a week thing, we must be like Christ 24/7, always and in Him at all times. Like I’ve said before that doesn’t mean we should give up every day hobbies like drawing or writing (just examples) but we must be tapped in to His glory to reflect the servant of Jesus.

We must remember what the Lord is for us and also to know who He is.

The LORD is my strength and my shield: my heart trusts in him and he helps me. My heart leaps for joy, and with my song I praise him. Psalm 28:7

What praiseworthy statements! To be defended by Him to trust Him and be helped by Him. May we remember the joy He gives and praise Him.

The Lord Jesus is worthy to be praised always, no matter how the circumstances turn out in life.

I had something disappointing happen in my life recently but I pray that I not walk away from Him concerning it or be tempted to fall back on things.

Sometimes we think we are sure of a “future.” And then those things don’t seem to pan out.

But I trust in Jesus to guide me in the way of everlasting though things seem unsure or like I don’t know what could happen either way.

I remember the things I used to do about this kind of thing. I’d feel lost and then fall into depression.

Yet I don’t see to do that now. I can only pray for the person and not do things that are immature and seek Him more instead. I don’t know what that is right now in a way but I will look to His will.

But I must seek His face, how often?:

Look to the Lord and His strength; seek His face always. 1 Chronicles 16:11

We should seek His face always! “Always?”

You mean we shouldn’t look to Jesus only after we sin?

We must do our most for God with what time we have left because He is worth it.

Not because He gives us strength but because He is Lord of Lords. Ones we should worship and live for because we are meant to do so.

Strength is nothing when it is not dependent on God. Let’s live our lives in the only way God wants so that we can be blessed and see our lives the way He really sees us. Amen.

Note: I re-edited this to keep from being too personal in a certain way to avoid being unfair talking about another person who might not be able to defend themselves. I write this in love and hoping no one could feel hurt by this.