He gives strength to the weary

God has shown me his great mercy and grace filled compassion.
His love and understanding is written all over scripture... and how sweet it is!

Isaiah 40:28-31 says,
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.

He gives strength to the weary
and increases the power of the weak.

Even youths grow tired and weary,
and young men stumble and fall;

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.

This life is often a struggle. We battle ourselves, our sin, and the world and it is indeed tiring. When we take it upon ourselves to grow and to change, we stumble. But it is those who hope in the Lord (who never grows weary) that will be strengthened. What an exercise in surrender, but what an awesome God to hope in!
In Hebrew, that word "hope" means to bind together. So not only are we to place our hope in God, but we are to be bound to him. Wrap up everything we are in him. Be joined with his every move and every desire. THAT is to hope in God. To trust him. That is where true strength lies.

Thank God for his loving kindness, compassion, understanding, and grace.

By wisdom the Lord laid the earth’s foundations, by understanding he set the heavens in place; by his knowledge the watery depths were divided, and the clouds let drop the dew.

Proverbs 3:19-20