Halsey.We find the same idea also in the New Testament with spiritual applications. He comes down from the mount made ready, like Moses, for work in the camp at large, or in the retirement of his tent. I have often gone to Saratoga, in the heat of the early summer, quite run down, and my vitality burned out as coal gets exhausted in the bunkers of a steamer. WHAT IS MEANT BY WAITING UPON THE LORD? Indeed I think we poor walkers sometimes make the most progress, for we lean more entirely on God and draw more constant supplies of His grace.(C. Chapters 56-66 deal with the return of the Jews to Jerusalem and the rebuilding of the city and the temple. Youth is full of impulses, full of excesses, full of exaggerations. But all forms of waiting on the Lord involve the personal, conscious, voluntary act of the mind or soul within us, for which no mere ceremony or ritual can be a substitute. Isaiah xl. If they hear of a medicinal spring far off in the mountains they hesitate not to undertake the journey, and undergo the hardships of the rugged way, that they may test the efficacy of the mineral waters. Something more than the decay of our material flesh is intended here; the carnal mind, the flesh in Charles Haddon SpurgeonSpurgeon's Sermons Volume 17: 1871This Sermon was Originally Printed"Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God." Their faith at one time is supported only by the promises,,-at other times by their own experience (Psalm 27:14; Lamentations 3:25, 26; Isaiah 30:18; Isaiah 49:23).3. WHAT IS IMPLIED IN WAITING UPON GOD?1. Clearer vision.3. God is opposed to idols, that all may know he is the only fit witness to himself. The meaning is obviously, They, all depend upon Thee; men and beasts alike.2. RENEWED VIGOUR. GOOD MEN ARE POSSESSED OF SPIRITUAL STRENGTH.1. The "walking" is the most important part after all. Seeking to become wise unto salvation out of His written Word, and in meditation on its soul-inspiring contents.III. THE HOPES THAT ARE BASED ON FAITH IN GOD GIVE STRENGTH ENOUGH TO APPROACH HIM. Protests of how people of color have been treated over the years. )God's grace sufficient for all life's stagesJ. "Waiting on the Lord" by prayer has the same effect on them that it has on an empty bucket to set it under a rain-spout. It is not only an act, but a gracious habit of mind (Psalm 25:5).4. "Having done all, to stand!" (3) But the essence of spiritual strength resides in the will A fixed purpose is that which more clearly characterise the genuine Christian than anything else. The strength spoken of is a moral, or more properly a spiritual quality. The whole soul gets strength by such exercise.II. --The Setting up of Idols a Defection from the True God. Truth and holiness and right abide for ever. )Strength renewed by waiting on the LordA. He gains wide outlooks; he breathes a clear and crystalline atmosphere. Do not all the influences which go to make up the ever-teeming society? Faith and hope and love itself, so dewy fresh in the morning, spend themselves in noonday's scorching heat, and run low at eventide. He walks and does not faint, and he will not have to stop and take rest and food because he is faint, but goes on and on. 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. You have learnt that to your sorrow by the bitter teaching of experience. --Isaiah 40:1. We see the years move on, and the everlasting truth subdue all to itself. The deliverance has made the singer look forward to the end, and his confidence in the issue is confirmed. Faith can work miracles. If I am to run and walk I must be in close communion with God; I must. But once we understand that it is God that must work it in us, then I understand that my highest passivity will be my highest activity, for when I give myself entirely away to God, God can work in me, and then I will work as they that wait upon the Lord."1. But when the evening comes, he is exhausted. But the strength spoken of in our text is evidently not corporeal strength; it is a power seated in the mind; but neither is it intellectual vigour. "The joy of the Lord is your strength."III. V. Tymms.I. THE SEVERAL BRANCHES OF THE PROMISE.(S. Our utter impotence. 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. )The strong in danger of exhaustionT. He comes down from the mount made ready, like Moses, for work in the camp at large, or in the retirement of his tent. In the power to endure it. Some carriages standing on the middle line of rails were to be attached to our train. In consequence of the exhausted spirits of the weary traveller never being renewed, some who did run well are hindered, and halt in their career; while others adopt altogether a retrograde movement, return to the path of their former delights, apostatise from the faith, and become worse than infidels.2. Horton, D. D.)Waiting in patienceT. There are also occasions when the best thing the believer can do is to sit still and cease from his own exertions; when everything must be looked for from God. Love Him and hold Him for thy friend, for He will not forsake thee when all Thomas A KempisImitation of ChristPrayer and Devotion"Once as I rode out into the woods for my health, in 1737, having alighted from my horse in a retired place, as my manner commonly had been to walk for divine contemplation and prayer, I had a view that for me was extraordinary, of the glory of the Son of God. There is something very grand in these august and mysterious voices which call one to another in the opening verses of this chapter. Then there is the "running," that is ready obedience a mark of the true servant. B. Meyer, B. WHAT BENEFITS AND AIDS THEY RECEIVE WHO WAIT UPON THE LORD. You have learnt that to your sorrow by the bitter teaching of experience. These two verses set forth two widely different operations of the divine power as exercised in two sadly different fields, the starry heavens and this weary world. He sees the clouds and mist around the planet, but not the world itself. I t would be improper to propose an alteration, though a slight one, in the reading of a text, without bearing my testimony to the great value of our English version, which I believe, in point of simplicity, strength, and fidelity, is not likely to be excelled by a new translation John NewtonMessiah Vol. Other images are used; those of the runner in the stadium, and the wrestler in the arena; but it is always on the walking that stress is laid. They wait with patient perseverance. A correspondence between our will and affections and the truth existing in our minds.3. That is the teaching of the prophet. For we have lost the exhilaration of youth and the stimulus of strong emotions. Consider also His promises and His covenant. It is that spiritual vigour of mind by which sin is overcome.2. The original is 'lead gently.' His largeness and clearness of view give corresponding elevation and decision to his character. Indeed I think we poor walkers sometimes make the most progress, for we lean more entirely on God and draw more constant supplies of His grace.(C. The way of public ordinances.2. The strength of wit, and reason, and understanding, and memory, and the like, while their heart and will and affections have no saving work at all upon them. Many things he desires to do but cannot. Booth by faith has changed the drunkard and the sensualist into saints. There are two wings in our spiritual ascent faith and obedience. Howells.I. You throw a stone into the air. If we take the running of the text to mean the rendering of active public service to God, and the walking to mean steadfast advance in character, the Christian requires the strength needed for both in the approach to God. "Mount up with wings as eagles, run, walk," and one might almost dare to add a fourth "stand still!"(F. Home-Life--Preparing for his Life-Work--The Vow of Separation--A Child of the Desert Zacharias and Elisabeth had probably almost ceased to pray for a child, or to urge the matter. There are various kinds of hopefulness, which differ greatly in their nature and their effects. Dickson, D. D.I. 2 Here I behold thy distant face, And 'tis a pleasing sight; But to abide in thine embrace Is infinite delight. Sleep comes upon him; and through its influence the waiting body recovers all its vigour, so that the man rises again in the morning ready for his toil. I felt an ardency of soul to be what I know not otherwise how to express, emptied and annihilated; to love Edward M. BoundsThe Essentials of PrayerThe God of all Comfort"Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort; who comforteth us in all our tribulations, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God." 3), and more fully by St. Luke (Is. This is expressive of 1. xl. (Sunday School Chronicle. "Renew" means to "change your strength."1. Patience has sometimes a dull, torpid, chrysalis aspect; but, when the time is ripe, patience passes into a winged rapture which rises gladly into the sunshine of heaven. (1) There are some cases and conditions, especially wherein a Christian has most need of having his strength renewed unto him; as, against a new service; against some new temptation and conflict with Satan; against some new trial and affliction. It endures for ever and ever as a living message, not effete though old, not wasted though abundantly used, but partaking of the unwearied energy and eternal reproductiveness of its infinite source. Let me translate that last word again, translate it by a word that is about as wide in its English significance as the word used by the prophet in his own time, "They shall mount up, they shall run, they shall go." How shall we avoid it? Then intuitions become truths not fitful, nor irregular, not based upon inchoate and undigested knowledge, but constant, regular, and founded on sound judgment.(H. Energy properly appertains to the will; indeed, it is nothing else but strong will; and where this exists there will be active exertion. L. Wiseman, B. (3) In the effects, for this supernatural strength is able to do greater matters than the other can do, helping a man to deny himself, to overcome the world, to mortify lusts and corruptions, etc. Our revisers have left this text exactly as, it stands in the A.V., "Mount up with wings as eagles, they shall run, and walk," and yet I do not think it is what the prophet meant. What a grand triumphal ode! 25-29). M. Donaldson, D. D.)Waiting on GodT. 2. Purer air.2. (1) The delay of answering our prayers (Luke 18:1). The precept is the same in substance with the exhortation of St. Paul, "Be ye followers of God, as dear children"; or with that of St. James, "Draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you." "Waiting on the Lord" by prayer has the same effect on them that it has on an empty bucket to set it under a rain-spout. The quotation of Is. The quotation of Is. First comes the "flying" stage. Howells. We traverse the solid unromantic ground of principle, while the ghost of many a shattered illusion haunts our path. They do not know by experience the blessings of communion, and therefore these outward aids in public worship are of little use to them. A patient continuance in an expecting attitude, until we actually receive the fulfilment of the Divine promise. "Caught up into the third heaven" he had seen "visions and revelations"; but he does not appeal to them as any sign of special grace. "For I am persuaded that neither death nor life," etc. What has he to trust in for the continuance of the hope that these desires shall be gratified? Waiting, in Scripture language, is a term used to denote dependence. God has provided hours for rest and refreshment.I. Nature has its springs, and so has grace. 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." When by faith the regenerated soul draws near to God, the earth appears to recede; all its objects are seen to be diminutive; and the realities of the heavenly state are perceived, and operate with power on the susceptible mind. I remember a sunset at sea, where the bosom of each wavelet that fronted the west was aglow with fiery gold, and the back of each turned eastward was cold green; so that, looking on the one hand all was glory, and on the other Alexander MaclarenExpositions of Holy ScriptureSalvation Published from the MountainsO 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! Rare landscape.5. But here we have a direct promise from a covenant-keeping God, that our strength shall be renewed adequate to all the demands which a perilous enterprise can render necessary.3. In quantity and degree. A. The older Jewish commentators imagined they discovered here a reference to an ancient belief that at a certain time the eagle plunged into the sea and bathed off his worn-out plumage, and that afterwards new feathers grew. Our text speaks not only of flying, but of running and walking. "They shall run, and not be weary." Its faith is romantic, the thrill of its devotion is exquisite. Perhaps that is the commentary on this verse. The recurrence of the same form of interrogation in these two verses is remarkable. It was the experience of its necessity and efficacy that made Luther what he was, and G. What is the reason of all this? )Recuperative powerF. We are not to spend all our time in rapturous contemplation. He who looks only at the burden of the world, and only sees its sorrow and shame, has not got to the last analysis of its meaning; he has not touched the Rock, is floundering in the mud. Let us rejoice in the Lord evermore, and again we say, rejoice. As long as you rest, in the place of power and blessing the stream will flow through you unceasingly.II. SOUL ELEVATION. Anderson. In an indirect manner, then, this encouraging passage of Scripture reminds us of the cause of our spiritual declensions. The spiritual is so real. When he has to contend with the powers of nature, he is strong and victorious; but when he has to contend with the powers of spiritual wickedness, and with his own ungodly desires, he is helpless. B. SimpsonDays of Heaven Upon Earth 'Have Ye Not? But how does God reveal Himself when He calls upon us to wait upon Him? Jones.I. It is the period of disenchantment; when we discover the bounds of the practical, and when we have a stronger sense of life's limitations than of its possibilities. There are many things for which we can only ask and then wait in quiet stillness, things which we cannot help God to give us, things which God Himself bestows without our aid, if we are ever to possess them. But when the Holy Spirit enters into any man, his thoughts and affections are raised to those things which are above. And we renew our strength for all enterprise which makes demand on our courage and truthfulness.2. (3) But as only few can fly and only some can run, there are still some who can only walk. Never failing to seek and obtain fellowship with God in the highest, always daring to attempt great actions, this heavenly minded man has thoughts and yearnings which raise his mode of life above the level of common things. "He is Faithful that Promised." (vers. What has the Lord Jesus Christ to leave? To those who live in this spirit is given AN EXCEEDING GREAT AND PRECIOUS PROMISE. So Isaiah 40:5. All these evils, so full of fierce and destructive energies, will soon be as the dust beneath our feet. Singer look forward to the end, and in meditation on its soul-inspiring contents.III to to. Upon us to WAIT upon Him They, all depend upon Thee ; men and beasts alike.2 ( Luke ). 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