Today’s Devotional: “God’s Healing Room”

There is healing in God’s waiting room. Waiting renews our strength and faith. This is beautifully illustrated through the prophet Isaiah.

“But those who wait on 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.” (Isaiah 40:31)

Waiting is God’s way of refilling our physical, emotional, and spiritual gas tanks with strength and faith to face the day’s challenges.

If we have enough strength to walk and no more, that will be enough, because God will give us the strength to endure. And, if we have to expend our energy running this race called life, we will not grow weary, stumble, or fall.

But beyond that, when we wait upon the Lord, God allows us to do things we never thought possible as we mount up on the wings of eagles, with God’s strength carrying us to new heights and possibilities.

Consider Abraham. Talk about renewed strength and faith. He’s 75 years old and has no children. Both he and Sarah, his wife, are well beyond childbearing age.

But God promised, and 25 years later, Isaac was born. That’s what I call renewed strength. But even more, the wait renewed his faith.

“Who, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, ‘So shall your descendants be.’ And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb. He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform.” (Romans 4:18-21)

In God’s waiting room, the Lord brings His healing touch, giving us strength and faith beyond ourselves and beyond our natural abilities, knowing that all things are possible with God.