)Communion withJ. He first became known as a preacher of the first rank during his pastorate over the large Presbyterian church in Evanston, Illinois. But the idea in his mind is not one of comparative motions. )PeopleIsaiah, JacobPlacesJerusalem, Lebanon, ZionTopicsEagles, Expecting, Faint, Fatigued, Gain, Grow, Mount, Pass, Pinion, Power, Raise, Renew, Run, Running, Soar, Strength, Tire, Tired, Wait, Waiting, Walk, Walking, Weariness, Weary, Wings, YetOutline1. A change from one kind of strength to another. But it is possible to rise by another kind of power. And because the servants of God have gone awfully wrong when it has not been renewed.5. )The power to realise idealsF. Cf. Renewal often comes to men in their extremity like this.3. In untiring activity in the direct service of God. THE HOPES THAT ARE BASED ON FAITH GIVE STRENGTH TO LIVE FOR GOD. (1) The eagle is an emblem of strength renewed (Psalm 103:5). And God, in His omnipotence and faithfulness, is willing to work in my heart every moment of the day.2. Hast Thou Not? THE BASIS OF LIFE'S EXALTATION. A. Truth and holiness and right abide for ever. A weak Christian is a burden to himself as meeting with many difficulties which he cannot grapple with, but which prove too hard to him. His largeness and clearness of view give corresponding elevation and decision to his character. It is the opposite, therefore, both of despair and of impatience. WHEREIN CONSISTS THE STRENGTH SPOKEN OF BY THE PROPHET?1. This is what we all need in this weary world, whose toils and cares and temptations perpetually remind us of our weakness and the need of invigorating grace. But the Christian has had that care upon his heart daffy, and he knows how to bear it, and before whom to lay it. You know who wrote that, and how true to the experience of a Christian is his picture. M. Donaldson, D. D.)Waiting on GodT. In simplicity of intention. He mounted up on eagle's wings to meet the down-coming Spirit of the Father. (See some ideas below.) It is the daily walk along the beaten path that reveals the depth and sincerity of our religion. To make our religion a delight and a glory we must surely wait on the Lord with songs of gladness and joy, praising Him more for what He is, and for what He has taught us to know and believe Him to be, than for the good gifts which His bounty hath bestowed.2. "THEY THAT WAIT UPON THE LORD SHALL RENEW THEIR STRENGTH."1. In religious experience youth is the time of wings. )The blessedness of Divine serviceD. A. They get filled. Search. The justified believer derives strength to advance to closest fellowship with God from the hope that he may meet Him in likeness of character.4. Those who have not eagle's wings still have some power of motion, they can run on the earth and in the path of God's commandments. Our whole future is mapped out with tests and trials, but we need not be afraid of these things if we are in the stream of the Divine supply. Where there is strength there will be diligence in well-doing. In quantity and degree. (1) The calm of a believing soul may be heightened into a kind of ecstasy. (4) The many businesses in religion so much work to be performed. Thank God, too, for the running stage. If we have failed, or have been foiled, God will put us on our feet again. I. 30, 31. On the other hand, Divine strength never fails. THE DUTY ENJOINED. What is the reason of all this? WHAT IS MEANT BY WAITING UPON THE LORD? "Mount up with wings as eagles."1. To one who thus heroically soars towards God and His light, the things of time and earth seem trivial and contemptible. C. --ISAIAH xl. All things are possible to him that believeth. The justified believer derives strength to advance to closest fellowship with God from the hope that he may meet Him in likeness of character.4. What is it to wait? I do not say "Do not pursue your ideal," but what I say is this, "If you ever really want to make your ideal, you must be endued with the power from on high."(F. The inertness of the despondent continually deepens their despondency, increases their weakness, and aggravates their misery. So a heaven-bound soul flies in company with God. This mood comes at the beginning, and not at the end of our career. It is one thing to begin, and another thing to go on.3. Walking is less than running, and fainting is more than weariness. But the margin speaks of this renewal as a change of strength, as if it would remind us of the mansidedness of the grace of God, and its perfect adaptability to our everchanging needs.II. A weak Christian will be an uncomfortable Christian.(T. )The continued renewal of strengthR. L. Wiseman, B. A.But it is said the prophet gives us the natural order. (Evan H. Hopkins, B. But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run and not be weary; and they shall walk and not faint.' THE SEVERAL BRANCHES OF THE PROMISE.(S. To make our religion a delight and a glory we must surely wait on the Lord with songs of gladness and joy, praising Him more for what He is, and for what He has taught us to know and believe Him to be, than for the good gifts which His bounty hath bestowed.2. 2. (4)Walk to Christ.(J. The deliverance has made the singer look forward to the end, and his confidence in the issue is confirmed. Is this the same as saying that we shall have the power of steady perseverance, of patient endurance under protracted trial? 1. Who can measure the unfailing strength which inspires the Christian when he feels that he is safe in the threefold grasp of the Triune God?II. This sounds as if they were in danger of becoming weary and faint in their minds. He has powers adapted to this exercise powers with which he can glorify his Maker; and he must not point those eagle faculties to the dust, but let them take wing and rise. "They shall mount up with wings" (Isa. (Andrew Murray. The guiding God: or the picture of the leading. Waiting, in Scripture language, is a term used to denote dependence. (1) The first typifies lofty aspiration and heroic action. You must wait until the time for it to blossom arrives. April 18. He must give up all that he loveth for his Beloved, for Jesus will be loved alone above all things. And when He Calls us home, He who sits upon the circle of the heavens, and sees all the sorrow of this world as you and I can never see it, bids us "Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord." "They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint." Prayer is the waiting posture of the soul. Finlayson. The man of God, the man who waits on God, is equal to any emergency, is equal to any strength. 1. All things are possible to him that believeth. This is a mounting up on wings, as compared with which the rest are but running and walking. RENEWED VIGOUR. When I have heard C. H. Spurgeon pray I have not been so astonished at some of his discourses.2. The despondent are unhappy and weak, and they shrink from effort; but the hopeful are joyous and strong, and they delight to put forth their strength in action. RENEWAL OF STRENGTH MEANS A RENEWAL OF ACTIVITY. In vain all my lonely musing, in vain all my bustle in the kingdom of Christ, if consistency of daily life does not accompany the whole. But the idea in his mind is not one of comparative motions. You must wait until the time for it to blossom arrives. Do you remember after His statement of great intellectual and moral truths that make the brain weary and the heart of the uninitiated faint, it is recorded that the Lord Jesus Christ's spirit leapt for joy, and He said, "Father, I thank Thee that Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and revealed them unto babes"! It was as he pursued the ordinary routine of his ministry along the common ways, with the humbling "thorn" ever rankling in his flesh, that he felt the need of and received special succour. True piety has no greater enemy than fanaticism, which some are so undiscriminating as to confound with the fervours of true religion. Have we made the hope that is laid up in God our own? 3), and more fully by St. Luke (Is. You know who wrote that, and how true to the experience of a Christian is his picture. (1) The motion itself. xl. It has already conquered half the world, and controls the whole. (1) The calm of a believing soul may be heightened into a kind of ecstasy. A. By waiting on the Lord the stream flows into its appointed bed. First, the purged ear of the prophet hears the divine command to him and to his brethren--Comfort Jerusalem with the message of the Alexander MaclarenExpositions of Holy Scripture, The Shepherd and the Fold Thou hast guided them in Thy strength unto Thy holy habitation.' 2. Study and love your Bible, but remember it is God who must give the orders, and you will fail if you take them from a book. 3. The promulgation of the Gospel3. THE RESULT. 5 Then at thy feet. You must cultivate that habit. They shall walk and not faint words which seem to denote consistency in common daily life. Clear and comprehensive views of the truth of God. When, by the use of these various instrumentalities our souls have grown, and have come into the possibility of a higher spiritual disclosure, then there is a further soul-growth in us. B. Meyer, B. "My peace I give unto you," that is the legacy. Jones. A. Howells. The one verse says, 'He is strong in power'; the other, 'He giveth Alexander MaclarenExpositions of Holy ScriptureO Thou that Bringest Good Tidings'O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain: O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!' The Church is a very powerful instrument, and will be indispensable through ages. A. They presented themselves and their offering. )Waiting upon the LordT. They will run nimbly enough after pleasure, wealth and fame, but not after the things which God bids them run after. But I believe that the preaching of the high ideal, divorced from the preaching of its attainment by the power of the Lord Jesus Christ, is the reason for more than one-half the cynicism that you find amongst men from thirty-five to forty at the present day. You know who wrote that, and how true to the experience of a Christian is his picture. Although we have a perfect right to go to God and pour out every wish and longing of our hearts, worthy and unworthy alike, yet this is not by any means the whole or the highest part of communion with Him. 2. To "walk worthy of his high vocation" is the supreme exploit of the Christian's faith. The guiding God: or the picture of the leading. (Sunday School Chronicle. He sees the clouds and mist around the planet, but not the world itself. It is in this last sense the sense of continuous expectancy that the word is used in the Bible. )Despondency and hopefulnessW. Spurgeon. It is quite clear that the order in which the prophet wrote was, "They that wait upon the Lord shall walk and not faint, shall run and not be weary, shall mount up with wings as eagles." Magnetise a needle, and it becomes much more sensitive to the force of the magnet. And look at that time when He has the burden of the world upon Him. Consideration of an objection taken from various passages in Moses. The fact is, men are led to think they are going to conquer the whole land in five minutes, and imagine they are going to realise their ideal before they are five-and-twenty; and when they find that the nearer they ought to be getting to their ideal the farther it recedes into the distance, they are discouraged, and, out of sheer despair of ever reaching their ideal, they give it up, and laugh at those who try to pursue it. Not to hear the word. Hidden in that secret pavilion we see things as they really are. He comes down from the mount made ready, like Moses, for work in the camp at large, or in the retirement of his tent. 5. The spiritual is so real. The picture of Moses and the children of Israel singing, and Miriam and the women answering: a gush of national pride and of worship! A. By waiting upon the Lord. Because they wanted this principle of spiritual strength.3. On the other hand, the blended eagerness and calm of the soul that is "waiting upon the Lord" make it the more receptive of all Divine influences, and keep it at least strong enough to take advantage of fresh sources of strength. HOW SHOULD SPIRITUAL STRENGTH BE EXHIBITED?1. There was a time when our human nature seemed to possess much spiritual strength, but there came a time when it was all lost; and from that time, in the experience of every human being, it has had to be renewed. And then we come to the quiet, steady, persistent "walk." )Godly optimismF. )The continued renewal of strengthR. The wall of Jerusalem, of the second temple, would never have been built but for men like Nehemiah and Haggai, men who had their times of fear and depression and weakness, hut who went to God and came back not only strengthened themselves, but able to strengthen their brethren, so that the great work was done. There is something very grand in these august and mysterious voices which call one to another in the opening verses of this chapter. When the determination of the will is not only fixed but strong, then the soul is in a vigorous state. Is this the same as saying that we shall have the power of steady perseverance, of patient endurance under protracted trial? A godly patience, then, is the grand secret of spiritual might. The second great thing is to know ourselves, to be willing and determined to accept what God reveals about us. And the first thing that strikes us is the language used by the prophet language so far removed from mere formal expression. Play MP3 of this sermon. And what does God reveal in contrast with His great omnipotence? "The joy of the Lord is your strength. In religious experience youth is the time of wings. "Wilt thou not revive us, O Lord?" Reflections 1. What do you say, Christian tradesman you upon whom God hath laid the responsibilities of home and family you Christian citizen-you whom the arrows of affliction have wounded you proclaimer of the Lord's message? It is a religion of conscience, and not a mere effervescence of pious emotion. To "walk worthy of his high vocation" is the supreme exploit of the Christian's faith. But, further. "Because of His strength," says the Psalmist, "I will wait upon Him, for God is my defence." Who can bring strength out of weakness? But how does God reveal Himself when He calls upon us to wait upon Him? In common daily duty we are to run in the ways of God's commandments; but the word is more frequently employed to denote some direct obedience to some special command. But we have good reason to believe that the prophet drew his imagery from familiar objects in the land of exile. He expressly forbids any attempt to represent him by a bodily shape. But that stage, too, passes. Xl. You are to wait for supplies. The spiritual is so real. I took a great deal away. Among all the names that reveal God, this, the "God of all comfort," seems to me one of the loveliest and the most absolutely comforting. Becoming weak as water, he shall not excel (Genesis 49:4).2. To "walk worthy of his high vocation" is the supreme exploit of the Christian's faith. 21 and 28. The boy who never knew what it was to be fagged out at school is not worth much. A. "They shall run," etc.III. They earnestly desire the enjoyment of His favour. In short, to wait upon God is to be a religious man.II. And when a contrary disposition is charged upon Israel, the Psalmist expresses it by saying, "They waited not for His counsel": that is, they wanted it not, nor meant to follow it, and therefore would not wait to receive it. Those who have not eagle's wings still have some power of motion, they can run on the earth and in the path of God's commandments. The picture of Moses and the children of Israel singing, and Miriam and the women answering: a gush of national pride and of worship! They were now coupled up to the source of the power, and the effect of every pulse of the engine was communicated to them, and had it run one hundred miles an hour so would they have done. Anderson. For such patience not only carries within itself the germs of strength, but also places the soul in that condition in which it is most susceptible of quickening influences and can most readily take advantage of fresh opportunities. Evangelical/Non-Denominational. Without warmth in our desires and feelings we shall be found sickly. "They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength," they are coupled up to the source of power without, and being coupled to the power without, the effect of every throb of the engine is communicated to the carriages, and the love of every beat of the heart of God comes down to the Church of the living God.(F. V. Tymms.As we look back on history we can see positive evidence that the promise of this text was historically fulfilled, and in the eases of the men to whom the message came first. What is this activity?1. --The Setting up of Idols a Defection from the True God. True piety has no greater enemy than fanaticism, which some are so undiscriminating as to confound with the fervours of true religion. But let them meet with some strong temptation and they are presently weary of those purposes and endeavours. Purer air.2. Our Lord refers to a similar thought in John 4:14, "The water that I shall give him shall become in him." The justified believer derives strength to advance to closest fellowship with God from the hope that he may meet Him in likeness of character.4. There is no weariness in love. This is the religion of the Bible: is it not a noble thing? And his incomparableness26. For we have lost the exhilaration of youth and the stimulus of strong emotions. When a soul has its inner life hid with Christ and lives a life of true consecration it is enabled to take wing, and its "citizenship is in heaven." 9. The sails are unfurled to catch the heavenly breeze. He stopped running because he was tired. All strength apart from God is derived strength, and is consequently measurable, and must come to an end. 1. 3. 9. The "walking" is the most important part after all. Tymms. H. Anderson.I. I brought but little there. (LUKE 1.) The sails are unfurled to catch the heavenly breeze. By a sudden impetus or effort. All this renewal of vitality was the result of waiting on one of those wonderful healthfountains. We must renew our strength, for it is for our honour, comfort, and safety.4. In all godly "waiting" there lies the capability of Godward soaring. Waiting upon God is a duty very frequently enforced in Scripture, and to which the highest blessings are annexed. "Oh to have watched thee through the vineyards wander, Pluck the ripe ears, and into evening roam!-- Followed, and known that in the twilight yonder Legions of angels shone about thy home!" His power is vast and unbounded, and nothing is too hard for Him. We are shown the infinite powers that He concealed in the heart of a solitary man of faith. Zeal to the soul is what animal heat is to the body. 1. But as they came round the curve from one line to the other friction and gravitation asserted their power. If we try to rise by means of faith alone we shall be like a bird with one wing. As near as I can judge, this continued about an hour; and kept me the greater part of the time in a flood of tears and weeping aloud.. Harwood. This phrase is descriptive, not merely of an occasional exercise, but of what is, or ought at least to be, the constant temper and frame of the believer's mind.II. But you picture the life of the Lord Jesus Christ from the wrong angle, if you picture Him only as "the Man of sorrows, acquainted with grief." All things are possible to him that believeth. Truth and holiness and right abide for ever. You see the progression of ideas; it is strength that has to be renewed, and it has to be renewed by God, and God gives it when we wait upon Him. The fact is, men are led to think they are going to conquer the whole land in five minutes, and imagine they are going to realise their ideal before they are five-and-twenty; and when they find that the nearer they ought to be getting to their ideal the farther it recedes into the distance, they are discouraged, and, out of sheer despair of ever reaching their ideal, they give it up, and laugh at those who try to pursue it. The more willing we are o wait upon God the better it is for us; for He pays for time and gives us the more because we have waited.(T. God seems to observe in spiritual things a similar order to that which exists in natural things. But death does not "make cowards of us all." Booth by faith has changed the drunkard and the sensualist into saints. Any duration. C. (1) The first typifies lofty aspiration and heroic action. A weak Christian will be an uncomfortable Christian.(T. WHEREIN CONSISTS THE STRENGTH SPOKEN OF BY THE PROPHET?1. The slight and shifting nature of the foundations on which worldly hopes are built makes it evident that they can do but little towards giving abiding and progressive strength to character, while frequent failures and disappointments depress and enfeeble. 4 [There all the heavenly hosts are seen, In shining ranks they move, And drink immortal vigour in, With wonder and with love. Knight, M. A.I. The tyro in cycling will go at full pelt; but only the experienced rider can walk or stand. "(5) The only other ingredient of spiritual strength is zeal, zeal according to knowledge. There is a double kind of change to be observed.1. HOW ARE WE TO RENEW OUR STRENGTH? (vers. M. Donaldson, D. D.)Waiting on GodT. )Life's order and the Divine sufficiencyJ. Hugh BinningHillis -- God the Unwearied GuideNewell Dwight Hillis was born at Magnolia, Iowa, in 1858. It should put the worshipers of idols to shame. --The Setting up of Idols a Defection from the True God. Now when he ceases from self and takes God as his strength, he changes his strength.2. So there is no word of truth, but it hath a season and time in which it is beautiful. Strength for to-day does not insure strength for to-morrow. Health, hope, and desire pass quickly away together, and a loaded table becomes an object of revulsion. Who does not know the temptations of reaction, and the days when the lights burn low?2. It is the daily walk along the beaten path that reveals the depth and sincerity of our religion. 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