Refreshed

For even young people tire and drop out, young folk in their prime stumble and fall. But those who wait upon God get fresh strength. They spread their wings and soar like eagles, they run and don’t get tired, they walk and don’t lag behind. Isaiah 40: 30-31( The Message)

How do you spend your time nowadays? When our options are narrowed down into stay at home. People take walking more leisurely on hiking trails and gush over waterfalls. Picturesque hanging cliffs on the backdrop of smiling faces and wide-eyed wonder posted on the virtual walls. I chanced up on hiking and trail walks myself. If you can hear silence, the mountains have it. If you can hear a whisper, it’s the rustling leaves that do it.

It’s not just me for sure. But we have been in the waiting room half of the year. Plans have been pushed on a pause. The struggle plays out in waiting on the thing that we want to pursue. A new job or an entrepreneurial endeavor, a cruise trip or an air travel.

Waiting is not a word in the fast-paced 21st century. Instantaneous, expeditious, lightning speed is the rule of the thumb. Hopefully by now, we are fully aware. Whatever the case may be, we are forced into stand-by and a pause until further notice.

Waiting is a now word as you and I can relate. It is a sedentary posture where you sit still and bide your time. It may be a conditional state of temporary isolation. The tipping point happens with what we do with it.

To wait is to focus and leave behind the distraction. Remain downright steady keeping up with the ongoing delays and extensions. The distance from your tired body to a “soaring like an eagle” vigor is the waiting in between. It’s not a secret but a promise of renewed strength and refreshing. We wait on God to do the task that are assigned to him. We step back and let him do the talking. We stay still while our battles are won his ways and on his terms not ours. We wait in excited expectation on unexpected resolutions.He goes before us and he marks out our paths. He is at the destination right before you start.

We lounge in the four corners of our home and not in the luxury of a cruise ship. We lodge in the not so comfortable faded sheets of our beds and not on transit for our next flight of adventure. We are not stuck but are called to rest and realign and keep our priorities straight. We must have been running with unnecessary baggage. No longer can we run the race with extra weight. We might have been in detours that side tracked our destination.

We don’t choose to be weak and tired. It happens to the strongest of us, young and old alike. But if any of us lean in and get some rest in the waiting time, we will be strengthened to take flight. When the pause is lifted and we are prepared to launch. Won’t he propel us to the destiny that has been waiting for us.