He who has only seen the sorrow, the grief, the sin of the world has not penetrated to the depth of the problem. But death does not "make cowards of us all." Is thy walk less with God, thy frame less heavenly? 2. Clearer vision.3. Who, then, shall give wings to a heavy laden sinner, strong enough to sustain him in his upward flight? "Our soul waiteth for the Lord; He is our help and shield." T he particulars of the great "mystery of godliness," as enumerated by the Apostle Paul, constitute the grand and inexhaustible theme of the Gospel ministry, "God manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on John NewtonMessiah Vol. Ward Beecher. Surely there must be some mistake. Gerhard Ter Steegen Is. Instead of this natural, and moral, and customary strength, they shall have a supernatural and spiritual given unto them. T he general style of the prophecies is poetical. Who does not know the temptations of reaction, and the days when the lights burn low?2. Whatever it be in their power to do, that power will be increased and their strength renewed by waiting upon God. That was almost 40 years ago and I am still learning. The Cherubim belonged to the tutelage of the Law. "Waiting upon the Lord." That is His great legacy to the Church. HOW SHOULD SPIRITUAL STRENGTH BE EXHIBITED? The complaint of a heathen. V. Tymms.As we look back on history we can see positive evidence that the promise of this text was historically fulfilled, and in the eases of the men to whom the message came first. 1The ConsolationComfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. To wait on the Lord is the drawing nigh unto Him, to pour out our wants before Him, though He knows them so well, to plead the necessities arising out of our own ignorance, waywardness, and poverty of soul, to ask for His light to shine in our darkness, to clear our minds of the mists and fogs of native prejudice and of traditional error, to make plain before us our path of duty, and to keep our feet steadfast therein, to take into His loving hands the discipline and correction of our hearts, and to make us willing to undergo it, to keep us from all vanity and lies, and from every form of subtle self-deception, so that we may ever be true to Him and to ourselves. To "walk worthy of his high vocation" is the supreme exploit of the Christian's faith. A. B. MeyerJohn the BaptistImpiety of Attributing a visible Form to God. Soul progress.(D. In religious experience youth is the time of wings. They wait on God, asking counsel, seeking strength, and imploring pardon and peace. But at the last, evil is found to be in its nature only decay. Read full chapter. Let the stream flow on uninterruptedly, and all your need in the way of weakness, helplessness, ignorance, emptiness will be met moment by moment. Soul progress.(D. ( C. H. L. Wiseman, B. For the old, for the young, for the sick and infirm, and even for such as may be tottering into the grave, he writes for them, and all he says is true and needful for their case. Even when He hides His face (Isaiah 8:17). The strength spoken of is a moral, or more properly a spiritual quality. Hours of holy exultation are necessary for hours of patient plodding, waiting and working. )Waiting upon GodT. And I am bound to say that those who find the least pleasure and the least benefit from public worship are those who do not wait on the Lord in private. It has already conquered half the world, and controls the whole. 3), and more fully by St. Luke (Is. And God, in His omnipotence and faithfulness, is willing to work in my heart every moment of the day.2. A more appropriate beginning of the book of consolations' could scarcely be conceived. Horton, D. D.1. Hence it is for these that the prophet chiefly writes. Indeed I think we poor walkers sometimes make the most progress, for we lean more entirely on God and draw more constant supplies of His grace.(C. Thus Job says, unto me men gave ear, they waited, and kept silence at my counsel": which is as if he had said, "I had only to speak, and they were ready to obey my directions." xl. Fortitude and patience under affliction is also the effect of that renewing and increase of spiritual strength, which is received from waiting on the Lord. Renewal often comes to men in their extremity like this.3. Hence it is for these that the prophet chiefly writes. There is the soaring Godward, and there is the common drudgery of daily walk and conversation, the practical common life.(T. 2 Here I behold thy distant face, And 'tis a pleasing sight; But to abide in thine embrace Is infinite delight. xl. To do this makes greater demands upon our moral steadfastness than to do either of the before-mentioned stages in our life experience. They shall run, or march on, and not be weary. What cares the eagle, as he bathes his wings in the translucent gold of the upper sky, for all the turmoil, the dust, or even the murky clouds that drift far beneath him? All the motives which the Gospel presents before him feed his hopefulness and increase his working power. So there is no word of truth, but it hath a season and time in which it is beautiful. How shall we avoid it? Flying. 26 and 29. 3), and more fully by St. Luke (Is. To think that we are labouring in vain is the thought that paralyses. And we renew our strength for all enterprise which makes demand on our courage and truthfulness.2. The man of God, the man who waits on God, is equal to any emergency, is equal to any strength. Whilst troubled days and years go by, In stillness hushed from stir and strife, Within Thine Arms I lie. Is thy walk less with God, thy frame less heavenly? 31). The strength spoken of is a moral, or more properly a spiritual quality. All strength apart from God is derived strength, and is consequently measurable, and must come to an end. THE HIGHEST STRENGTH IS DEVELOPED IN THE HIGHEST ACTIVITY. Horton, D. D.)Waiting upon the LordJ. Waiting upon the Lord. If we can bring these two together, what a wondrous thing will happen! We are not to spend all our time in rapturous contemplation. Greed, unrighteousness, sensuality, may appear to be more stable than granite. He comes down from the mount made ready, like Moses, for work in the camp at large, or in the retirement of his tent. Horton, D. D.Profane and desperate persons fly off in a discontent and impatience, like Jehoram (2 Kings 6:33). "I can do all things," said Paul, "through Christ which strengtheneth me." Reviving Grace. I felt an ardency of soul to be what I know not otherwise how to express, emptied and annihilated; to love Edward M. BoundsThe Essentials of PrayerThe God of all Comfort"Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort; who comforteth us in all our tribulations, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God." And for them, too, the promise holds good, "They shall renew their strength, they shall walk and not faint." Divine consolation. --Isaiah 40:1. Another sense in which the word "waiting" occurs in Scripture is, a willingness to be directed by the person waited upon. They wait His time, acquiesce in His methods.(J. )Waiting upon the LordT. Is prayer less a privilege than it has John Ross MacduffThe Faithful Promiser"And the Redeemer Shall Come unto Zion, and unto them that Turn,"Isaiah lix. )Strength helping weaknessF. In short, it is a grace, just as much as the grace of faith, or love, or humility. hath it not been told yon from the beginning? The nature of each man's hopes will be in accordance with his ruling desires, and the amount of his hopefulness will depend on that to which he trusts for the fulfilment of his desires. I. He would exhaust his strength if he continued working. That is the way to finish. Clearer vision.3. But they are only painted cloud. "In quietness and confidence shall be your strength." WE SEE HOW A TRUE CHURCH MAY BE DESCRIBED. 1. The soul of fallen man naturally grovels on the earth; his face instead of being raised to heaven, is prone toward the ground. Waiting, in Scripture language, is a term used to denote dependence. They that wait upon the Lord shall "change," that is, they shall have another strength bestowed upon them, and such as will be more useful to them. Cooke. Halsey.We find the same idea also in the New Testament with spiritual applications. Study and love your Bible, but remember it is God who must give the orders, and you will fail if you take them from a book. They could not suggest to the prophet his religious thought, but his inspired genius laid them under tribute to assist the utterance of a thought of higher inspiration. By a sudden impetus or effort. Something more than the decay of our material flesh is intended here; the carnal mind, the flesh in Charles Haddon SpurgeonSpurgeon's Sermons Volume 17: 1871This Sermon was Originally Printed"Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God." Too soon the wings, like those of Icarus, melt, and we drop to mother earth again. This large world, the spiritual, into which Isaiah has ushered us, includes all worlds, for it is as limitless as its Ruler. In rapturous contemplation of the things of God. Funny how people are so consumed with what others think about them rather than what God thinks about them. The inertness of the despondent continually deepens their despondency, increases their weakness, and aggravates their misery. The inertness of the despondent continually deepens their despondency, increases their weakness, and aggravates their misery. His power is vast and unbounded, and nothing is too hard for Him. M. Donaldson, D. D.No man is as strong as he desires to be. THE GENERAL PROPOSITION. The Church is a very powerful instrument, and will be indispensable through ages. Once more, if I am to wait upon the Lord aright I must study well what this word "wait" in itself implies. B. Meyer, B. A.Any racehorse will start at full speed; but how few have staying power! Comforts the people.Dictionary of Bible ThemesIsaiah 40:314612birds4690wings5763attitudes, positive to God5767attitudes, in prayer8150revival, personal8463priority, of faith, hope and love9612hope, in God9615hope, results ofIsaiah 40:27-316233rejection, experienceIsaiah 40:28-315537sleeplessness8724doubt, dealing withIsaiah 40:29-315057rest, physicalIsaiah 40:30-315178running8145renewal, people of GodLibraryApril 18. But waiting on the Lord implies much more than this. The more alert and bold a youth will be, the more certainly he will at some time overtask his strength. Trust in the Lord.II. There is the strength of civility and moral principles. The most vigorous pinion will never reach the sun, but yet it may reach so high that earth-bound creatures shall fail to track its flight, and lose it in the glare of the excellent glory.2. The inimitable simplicity which characterizes every, THE passage in Isaiah which I have just read in your hearing may be used as a very eloquent description of our mortality, and if a sermon should be preached from it upon the frailty of human nature, the brevity of life, and the certainty of death, no one could dispute the appropriateness of the text. Halsey.But, you say, if this progression of ideas is a true climax, flying, running, walking why stay there? Does not the village common school work upon the human soul? Child of God, that is to be your position. --ISAIAH xl. But running is harder than flying. Use all strength as a gift of God. If you want the flash of a new inspiration the man of God will receive it; if you want swift progress the man of God is equal to it; if you want steady perseverance you shall find it in the man of God also. A godly patience, then, is the grand secret of spiritual might. xl. In common daily duty we are to run in the ways of God's commandments; but the word is more frequently employed to denote some direct obedience to some special command. )Running and walkingF. (3) In the effects, for this supernatural strength is able to do greater matters than the other can do, helping a man to deny himself, to overcome the world, to mortify lusts and corruptions, etc.2. (3) The afflictions of others, and the scandal of the Cross (Ephesians 3:13). )Despondency and hopefulnessW. There had been no heaven-sent sign to assure them that there was any F. But at the last, evil is found to be in its nature only decay. Halsey. What a cheering revelation: "Your God!" Youth is full of impulses, full of excesses, full of exaggerations. And again, "I wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, and in His word do I hope," etc. Cf. HOW ARE WE TO RENEW OUR STRENGTH? But who is not weary, sometimes, in well-doing! The flash of inspiration brings eager enthusiasm; you actively pursue your ideal for a time, and then, because of the steepness of the place, you come down to a painful walk. Halsey.We find the same idea also in the New Testament with spiritual applications. To wait on the Lord is the drawing nigh unto Him, to pour out our wants before Him, though He knows them so well, to plead the necessities arising out of our own ignorance, waywardness, and poverty of soul, to ask for His light to shine in our darkness, to clear our minds of the mists and fogs of native prejudice and of traditional error, to make plain before us our path of duty, and to keep our feet steadfast therein, to take into His loving hands the discipline and correction of our hearts, and to make us willing to undergo it, to keep us from all vanity and lies, and from every form of subtle self-deception, so that we may ever be true to Him and to ourselves. )Renewal of strengthT. know what it is to mount up. And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it. 39 chapters deal with old covenant. The period of fresh, wild enthusiasms; the season of zeal without discretion, when all sorts of impossibilities are dreamed, all sorts of vain things attempted. You have learnt that to your sorrow by the bitter teaching of experience. As our natural life requires to be nourished by suitable food from day to day, without which it would decline and death would ensue, so the spiritual life of the Christian needs to be recruited continually, with the nutriment which is suited to its growth and strength.3. L. Wiseman, B. 4612birds4690wings5763attitudes, positive to God5767attitudes, in prayer8150revival, personal8463priority, of faith, hope and love9612hope, in God9615hope, results of, 5537sleeplessness8724doubt, dealing with, 5178running8145renewal, people of God, 'Have Ye Not? This is the mainspring of all spiritual exercises. They presented themselves and their offering. Thomas, D. D.There are three blessings suggested as consequent upon this waiting I. SPIRITUAL STRENGTH, HOW IS IT TO BE OBTAINED? 1. And all our waiting upon God will depend upon one thing the knowledge that we have of Him. If I am to run and walk I must be in close communion with God; I must. Paul had had his eagle "flights," but he did not make much of them. A good Christian performs good duties with some life and fervour in them.2. It is because we do not constantly wait upon the Lord.(J. This reputation led to his being called to the Central Church, Chicago, in which he succeeded Dr. David Swing, and where from the first he attracted audiences completely filling one of the largest auditoriums in Chicago. Becoming weak as water, he shall not excel (Genesis 49:4).2. Rare landscape.5. 3. It implies the existence of an invincible faith, which nothing can destroy, although for a moment it may be disturbed.2. A weak Christian will be an uncomfortable Christian.(T. "They shall mount up," etc.(T. 4 [There all the heavenly hosts are seen, In shining ranks they move, And drink immortal vigour in, With wonder and with love. Thence the word came to signify patience as opposed to worry and despondency. In the power to endure it. Holy gratitude is a wing that will bear the soul aloft to its Benefactor.2. We have found that after all we have to live on terra firma. The flash of inspiration brings eager enthusiasm; you actively pursue your ideal for a time, and then, because of the steepness of the place, you come down to a painful walk. He had "run" swiftly to and fro on many an errand of evangelisation; but he does not dwell on these as having called forth any remarkable manifestations of the Divine helpfulness. This is first chapter of new. One of the oldest and best tried rules of religion is THE SACRED DUTY OF COMMUNION WITH GOD. (2) The continuance of this motion. Isaiah 40:12-31 Sermon Notes; OSWALD CHAMBERS . "(1) Thus moved, the believer strives above all things, and in all things, after perfect likeness to his Saviour in personal character. Let us notice: THIS WAITING UPON THE LORD. Greed, unrighteousness, sensuality, may appear to be more stable than granite. He has kept the world going all these ages; and my short life of sixty, seventy, or eighty years will my God not care for and maintain that? V. Although we cannot always account for these moods of the soul, we might all experience them more frequently if our habitual attitude were more of a "waiting upon God." But as they came round the curve from one line to the other friction and gravitation asserted their power. "So I saw in my dream that he went from running to going, and from going to scrambling on his hands and knees, because of the steepness of the place." Faith can work miracles. He who looks only at the burden of the world, and only sees its sorrow and shame, has not got to the last analysis of its meaning; he has not touched the Rock, is floundering in the mud. --Isaiah 40:1. If we try to rise by means of faith alone we shall be like a bird with one wing. This threefold description of mounting up, running and walking, presents three aspects of the same character. All the organs are there, but they want new strength. But once we understand that it is God that must work it in us, then I understand that my highest passivity will be my highest activity, for when I give myself entirely away to God, God can work in me, and then I will work as they that wait upon the Lord."1. Godliness is progress without fatigue. The Septuagint translators of the Old Testament were so sure of this bit of false science that in order to square their Hebrew Scriptures with the fashion of thought in Alexandria, they ventured to alter the words of our text, and to read, "They shall put forth new feathers like eagles," and so the old Greek version reads to-day. V. There are also occasions when the best thing the believer can do is to sit still and cease from his own exertions; when everything must be looked for from God. Xl. So here the prophet does not mean to say that if we would "renew our strength," we have simply to seek an interview with God and lay our request before Him; but that if we keep looking to God with a believing and patient expectation, new vigour will come to us, our very patience will be a source of strength, and the God in whom we hope will not disappoint us.2. But such seasons of elevated devotion and delightful contemplation are not constant. A. These two things seem very far away: man with his faintness, God with His eternity and inexhaustible omnipotence. "Waiting upon the Lord." The corroding cares of the world should excite them to obtain the renewal of their strength.3. God is able to keep his promises to us, just as he did with the Israelites. It is possible for the best of men to lose much of the influence of religion from the heart, and for a time to be very unconscious of it.2. "THEY SHALL WALK AND NOT FAINT." By waiting on the Lord the stream flows into its appointed bed. A. )Untiring progressF. II. "They shall mount up with wings as eagles," etc. (3) The afflictions of others, and the scandal of the Cross (Ephesians 3:13). HOW SHOULD SPIRITUAL STRENGTH BE EXHIBITED?1. THE NATURE OF THIS GREAT BLESSING WHICH GOD HAS ASSURED TO ALL THAT WAIT UPON HIM. Voysey, B. A.I. L. Cuyler, D. D.This passage has the ring of an Alpine horn. Whereas the man who has worn himself out by impatience, or yielded himself up to despair, is too inert or too distracted to take adequate advantage of the fresh opportunities which may come at last. As bodily health is only found in a well-balanced and healthy state of the corporeal functions, so spiritual strength can only be found in souls into which new life has been infused, and is in vigorous exercise. "Mount up with wings as eagles."1. 3), and more fully by St. Luke (Is. Knight, M. Too soon a hard and cynical world converts our ingenuous confidence into self-mistrust. "(5) The only other ingredient of spiritual strength is zeal, zeal according to knowledge. Horton, D. D.)Waiting in patienceT. 1The HarbingerThe voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD , make straight in the desert a high-way for our God. There is the strength of civility and moral principles. THE CONDITION of all this. Try, Mapping 'fault Lines' In America - Micah 3, 5 Ways To Grow Your Church's Congregation, My Sermon With A Little Bit Of Bible Thrown In. Even "as the stream of brooks they pass away." The nature of each man's hopes will be in accordance with his ruling desires, and the amount of his hopefulness will depend on that to which he trusts for the fulfilment of his desires. And away went those weary, dilatory carriages as fast as the rest. A persuasion of the power and goodness of God; His readiness to stretch out His almighty hand to help us, amidst the difficulties, infirmities, and temptations to which we are exposed. And indeed that is a great part of wisdom, to bring forth everything in its season, to discern when and where, and to whom it is pertinent and edifying, to speak such and such truths. Full provision has been made to supply this need of the soul. Waiting, in the Scriptures, sometimes includes the idea which we affix to it in common life; namely, that of attendance or service.II. THIS STRENGTH REQUIRES TO BE RENEWED.1. Funny how laborious it is to read a chapter in the Bible and how easy it is. WHEREIN CONSISTS THE STRENGTH SPOKEN OF BY THE PROPHET?1. The brighter the light before them, the more eagerly and steadfastly they rise upwards to greet it and to bathe in its splendour. In the power to endure it. Let me give four rules for this walk: (1)Start from Christ. This is the truth on which he is insisting before these downhearted and enfeebled Babylonian captives whose hands hang down, whose knees are feeble. "Mount up with wings as eagles." These are the great seers of the human race whose absorbing love and adoration of God has filled them with light and knowledge of Him little dreamed of by the many who have feebler and lower aspiration. "They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint." There are many things for which we can only ask and then wait in quiet stillness, things which we cannot help God to give us, things which God Himself bestows without our aid, if we are ever to possess them. Whatever it be in their power to do, that power will be increased and their strength renewed by waiting upon God. He has powers adapted to this exercise powers with which he can glorify his Maker; and he must not point those eagle faculties to the dust, but let them take wing and rise. --The Setting up of Idols a Defection from the True God. Presently a new appetite for food was awakened, and a new life crept into my ten fingers; walking became a delight, and preaching as easy as for a lark to sing. A. THIS STRENGTH REQUIRES TO BE RENEWED.1. First, the purged ear of the prophet hears the divine command to him and to his brethren--Comfort Jerusalem with the message of the Alexander MaclarenExpositions of Holy ScriptureThe Shepherd and the Fold Thou hast guided them in Thy strength unto Thy holy habitation.' When, again, we think of those whose pleasures are more purely intellectual, we know that an enfeebled memory puts an effectual check on the acquisition of knowledge.3. The whole point is there. The tyro in cycling will go at full pelt; but only the experienced rider can walk or stand. They earnestly desire the enjoyment of His favour.2. Therefore the prophet had suggested to Israel this thought, that "the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary." (LUKE 1.) 1 Father, I long, I faint to see The place of thine abode, I'd leave thy earthly courts and flee Up to thy seat, my God! "Our soul waiteth for the Lord; He is our help and shield." The spiritual is so real. 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