by Arthur W. Pink
by Arthur W. Pink
Philologos Religious Online Books
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by Arthur W. Pink
February, 1943
STRENGTH RENEWED.
“They that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength” (Isa. 41:31). What a blessed promise is this for those conscious of their feebleness! But it must be personally appropriated if we are to enjoy the good of it: faith must lay definite hold of the same and humbly but earnestly plead it before God. Nor should we regard it as restricted to the reviving of our souls: it includes also the re-energizing of our bodies, as not a few can testify. It is blessedly true that those who trustfully wait upon the Lord shall have their graces quickened, their spiritual strength renewed. But it is equally true that the greater includes the less and that if we confidently count upon His doing so, the Lord will renew our physical strength. “Through faith also Sarah herself received strength” (Heb. 11:11), and as the remainder of the verse shows, it was physical strength—but it was received “through faith”!
“The LORD shall renew their strength.” On many occasions has this writer—when preaching six times a week (rarely for less than an hour, usually seventy-five to ninety minutes) in the heat of Australia, journeying here and there to do so—returned home at 10 p.m. feeling worn and weary and pleading this promise expectantly and partaking of light refreshment, sat down for four hours' hard study and writing an article for this magazine. So also has his wife, born of parents who died before she was ten and herself of frail constitution, found this one of her chief stand-by's for many years past and proven for herself those words, “out of weakness were made strong” (Heb. 11:34). And why should not you also, Christian reader? Read carefully Isaiah 40:28-31 and turn it into believing prayer: but remember the strength must be used in the performance of duty and not frittered away! As prevention is better than cure, so is the renewing of our vitality more desirable than “faith healing.”—A.W.P.
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