Month: February 2026

Wait – Isaiah 40:27–31

Isaiah 40:31 (NIV)
“But those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.”

Isaiah spoke to a people who were tired of waiting. Politically threatened, spiritually worn down, and emotionally exhausted, they had begun to say—out loud—that God no longer saw them. Their complaint was simple: He’s ignoring us. Isaiah’s response that I’m paraphrasing here was just as direct: “Stop it.“

God had not forgotten them. He was not unaware of Assyria, of empires, or of their fear. But His answer was not immediate relief—it was a call to wait with faith. Strength would come. Rescue would come. But it would come in God’s time, not theirs.

Isaiah 40 has always had a way of reordering perspective. Kings, nations, and epochs rise and fall, yet God remains eternal and untouched. What feels overwhelming to us is momentary when set against God’s timelessness. That doesn’t mean our afflictions don’t matter. God sees them. He sees us walking through them. But Scripture is clear: God values faith more than fast relief.

Faith is formed while waiting. It cannot be rushed. It cannot be manufactured. It grows only when we trust God in the space between promise and fulfillment.

That waiting is hard—especially when we want God to act decisively and immediately. Faithful endurance doesn’t come naturally. But Isaiah reminds us that weariness is not the end of the story. Those who hope in the Lord do not stay depleted forever. Strength is renewed. Perspective is restored. Movement resumes—first walking, then running, and finally soaring.

God sees. God loves. And even when He seems slow, He is never absent.

Incidentally, I recently was playing with AI, and had it make a blues song based on Isaiah 40. It isn’t my singing. It’s not my guitar. Heck, it isn’t even my lyrics. But, I think it’s pretty good. Enjoy.

Wisdom – Proverbs 3:1–6

Proverbs 3:5 (NIV)
“Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.”

There is a kind of wisdom that looks impressive but is ultimately self-referential. It is built on confidence in one’s own judgment, experience, and instincts. Proverbs quietly but firmly exposes that kind of wisdom as insufficient. The wisdom God calls His people to is not primarily about intelligence or strategy; it is about orientation—who or what we are relying on.

For the original audience, this passage tied wisdom to character. Loyalty and faithfulness were not abstract virtues; they shaped how a person was viewed both by God and by the community. Trusting the Lord meant rejecting the assumption that human insight was the highest authority. True wisdom began with acknowledging that God sees what we cannot and understands what we never will.

That tension still exists today. It is easy to believe that God has given us wisdom and then subtly shift into trusting our own abilities instead of Him. Even our reactions can betray that shift—responding with what seems reasonable, efficient, or self-protective rather than what reflects God’s counsel. In that sense, relying on “worldly wisdom” is not always loud or arrogant; sometimes it simply feels practical.

This passage calls for something harder: active dependence. Trusting the Lord means submitting decisions, instincts, and even our sense of competence to Him. It means admitting that wisdom is not something we possess, but something we receive. Learning to rely on God’s counsel is not automatic—it must be taught, practiced, and prayed into existence.