What Are We Bound To?

Isaiah 40:27-31 (ESV) 27 Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the LORD, and my right is disregarded by my God”? 28 Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. 29 He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. 30 Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; 31 but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

VS 27: Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the LORD, and my right is disregarded by my God”?

God’s people of that day seemed to question whether God saw them and thought that they had been neglected by God. 

VS 28: Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.

Isaiah didn’t ask have you heard or did you know… he asked “have you not known” and “have you not heard” 

The LORD is an EVERLASTING God…. He is THE CREATOR!

• There are somethings God can’t do…. Get faint… or get weary! 

1 Corinthians 2:16 (ESV) 16 “For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

Romans 11:33-35 (ESV) 33 Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! 34 “For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?” 35 “Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?” (Job 36) 

VS 29-30: He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. 30 Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted;

God doesn’t give power to the mighty or strength to the strong… 

Even the young will run out of strength, they will grow weary and faint from exhaustion. 

VS 31: but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

BUT they that wait upon the LORD…. 

• In Hebrew it’s a phrase… Qava: a primitive root; to bind together (perhaps by twisting), i.e. collect; (figuratively) to expect:—gather (together), look, patiently, tarry, wait (for, on, upon).

Psalms 51:10 (ESV) 10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

Hitch yourself to Almighty God and you will ASCEND….. not Descend…. 

The order is important here…. Fly, Run and Walk…. One would think its walk, run and fly. 

• We must grow closer to God and have a right relationship with Him and THEN we can run the race set before us and walk with God and not get weary. 

Hebrews 12:1-2 (ESV) 1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

1 John 1:6-7 (ESV) 6 If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

Micah 6:8 (ESV) 8 He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

When we are young and there is trouble we run…. As we get older and more mature we walk…. 

Its doesn’t say that they those who wait on the Lord will be renewed 

Maybe you say… I know Jesus but I am still weary and worn to a nub…. I would ask, what are you hold back on? 

FLY, RUN & WALK….. God can do for you what you can’t, if you would be willing to bind yourself and all that you are to Him!