Empty Was Never the Disqualification | Before the Doors Open

You are tired. He is not. That is the whole thing. You can have it before you get out of the car. Because you already did the arithmetic this morning. How many hours of sleep. How much is left against how much today is going to ask for. You have run that number every Sunday for years, it keeps getting smaller, and today you were planning to get through on whatever is in the bottom of the can.

One thing before we go here, because I know what this passage gets used for. Wings like eagles gets handed to tired ministry people like a towel from Hobby Lobby, and then when you are actually overworked, your tiredness turns into a spiritual problem. That is not what I am doing with it this morning.

Isaiah, chapter forty, verses twenty eight through thirty one. World English Bible. "Haven't you known? Haven't you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn't faint. He isn't weary. His understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might. Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall; but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint."

Notice who falls down. Not the old and not the fragile. The young men. The ones with the most left in the tank. Isaiah picked the strongest people in the room, so that nobody hearing it could decide the problem is that they personally did not have enough. Everybody runs out. He put that in on purpose. And the promise is not that you stop being tired this morning. Look at where the running and the not being weary actually sit. On the far side of the waiting.

Strength gets renewed, and the passage names who gets it. The weak. The one with no might. A strange group to hand power to, unless empty was never the disqualification. The only thing it asks of you is where you are pointed while you are empty. Wait for Yahweh. Not wait it out. Wait for him.

Go. The room is waiting. But more importantly, Jesus is already in it.