Isaiah 40:28 “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.”
In John Wesley’s last letter, addressed to the abolitionist William Wilberforce, he wrote: “Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils. But if God be for you, who can be against you? Are all of them together stronger than God? O be not weary of well doing!”
Hudson Taylor reflected: “All God’s giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reckoned on his being with them. They counted on God’s faithfulness.”
God is faithful. He is trustworthy, even when we are weary and weak. His understanding, strength, and power are available to us today. If we are becoming weary, he is the solution. Whenever you get weary, try to remember and avoid the ‘Seven Steps to Failure’:
1. When a thought becomes a worry or concern, do not pray, or if you pray, make sure you do not actually trust him with it.
2. Take the burden on yourself; load yourself up so you do not have to depend on him.
3. Experience the weariness that sets in over time; we were never meant to carry the burden.
4. Continue steps 1-3 and feel the discouragement grow; it will actually bleed over to other areas that used to be fine.
5. Linger in the discouraged state so that you can become disillusioned.
6. Now disengage from people so they will not discover you are disillusioned and offer you help, so you will be isolated.
7. Make an absolutely terrible decision in an act of desperation.
If that rings true, choose to act on it today. God is faithful, and calls you to live by faith. The beginning of fear is the end of faith; the beginning of real faith is the end fear. Fear or anxiety never strengthens you for tomorrow – it just makes you weary today.
Lord, I choose to trust you. Be my strength today. Amen!
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