They Shall Renew Their Strength
They Shall Renew Their Strength
You do not have to manufacture the strength to face this week. You were made to receive it. Wait on the Lord and let Him renew what the world has drained.
If you are stepping into this Monday feeling anything less than fully rested and ready, you are in good company. Most of us arrive at the start of a new week carrying the leftovers of the last one. The fatigue that did not fully lift over the weekend. The weight of a situation that did not resolve by Sunday night. The quiet exhaustion that comes not from doing too much but from carrying too much for too long without setting it down. And yet here is Monday, asking for your best, asking for your presence, asking you to begin again.
Isaiah 40:31 does not begin with a command. It begins with a promise. And that matters deeply because the strength this verse is pointing to is not something you manufacture from your own reserves. It is something you receive. It comes from waiting on the One who never grows weary Himself and who offers His strength freely to those who trust in Him.
"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 · NKJVScripture quoted from the New King James Version (NKJV).
Those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength. Not those who push harder. Not those who wake up earlier or try more intensely or force their way through another week on willpower alone. Those who wait. That word wait in the original language carries the picture of twisting together, like strands of a rope being wound around something strong. To wait on the Lord is to intertwine your life with His, to let His strength become the thing your strength is wound around. When you do that, you do not just survive the week. You soar through it.
The strength God offers is not a supplement to your own. It is a replacement for it. Stop relying on what you have left and start receiving what He has already prepared for you.
Look at the progression in this verse. First you mount up with wings like eagles. That is the high and soaring season, the moments when everything flows and faith feels effortless. Then you run and not be weary. That is the active and demanding season when you are in motion and the pace is high but God sustains you. And finally you walk and not faint. That is the long and quiet season. The season that does not feel dramatic or exciting but simply requires you to keep going one steady step at a time without collapsing under the weight of it.
God's strength covers all three. The soaring and the running and the quiet persistent walking. Whatever season you are in right now, whatever this week holds, His strength is available for it. You do not have to come to this Monday with anything more than willingness to wait on Him.
This week when you feel the drain coming, when the weariness starts to creep in at the edges of your day, return to this verse. Remember that the God who created the eagle and set the stars in their courses is the same God who is renewing your strength right now, in this ordinary Monday, in this specific and sometimes difficult season of your life. He does not grow tired of giving it. Come back and receive it as many times as you need to.
You were not made to run on empty. You were made to run on His strength. That supply never runs out.
Mount up
In the high and soaring seasons, His strength lifts you above what would otherwise overwhelm you.
Run without weariness
In the active and demanding seasons, His strength sustains your pace when your own energy would give out.
Walk without fainting
In the long and quiet seasons, His strength keeps you moving forward one faithful step at a time without collapse.
- Am I in a soaring season, a running season, or a walking season right now and what does waiting on God look like in that specific place?
- Where have I been relying on my own strength this week when God was inviting me to receive His instead?
- What would it look like to begin this week by waiting on the Lord before I begin doing anything?
Lord, I come to You this Monday not with my own strength but with my need for Yours. Renew me today. Whatever was drained last week, fill it back up. Wherever I have been running on empty, meet me there. Help me to wait on You before I reach for my own reserves. Teach me what it means to mount up, to run, and to walk in the strength that only You can give. Amen.
With love and grace,
Honeycomb & Heart