“Yet those who wait for the LORD
Will gain new strength;
They will mount up with wings like eagles,
They will run and not get tired,
They will walk and not become weary.”
Isaiah 40:31 NASB
I have always loved this verse. There is something hopeful about it—the promise that in all things, we can persevere and soar like the eagle when the LORD gives us the strength we need and grace in the waiting.
The idea occurs to me that often I want the strength promised here,
while not always being willing to do the hard part.
—and that is to sit in the waiting.
This verse, while giving me great encouragement, also offers a challenge as I think about the eagle.
The eagle does not create the current.
It waits for it,
catches it,
and rises on what it cannot produce by its own strength.
An eagle may have wings, but even those wings wait for wind.
Without that current, it cannot rise as it was designed to rise.
And maybe that is part of what makes waiting so hard.
We often want to manufacture our own momentum.
We flap harder and harder.
We push forward.
We try to create the lift ourselves.
But there are heights we cannot reach by human effort alone.
There are seasons where God calls us to wait,
not because He is withholding good,
but because He is preparing the current that will carry us in His time.
Our wind gust will not do what God’s wind can do.
Waiting on the Lord is not lost time, because God’s timing carries power that our striving cannot produce.
Consider the in-between times.
The waiting times.
Not the storm.
Not the breakthrough.
Just the quiet middle.
Sometimes we misunderstand that place.
We may think nothing is happening simply because nothing visible is changing.
Yet God often does His deepest strengthening in the quiet.
And there, we often experience the most profound spiritual growth.
It is where He lets our soul breathe again.
It is where He restores what has been worn down.
It is where He teaches us to listen, to trust, and to depend on Him before the next step is clear.
The in-between season may feel ordinary, but grace is still present there.
Grace to recover.
Grace to remember.
Grace to be strengthened.
Grace to prepare for what is coming next.
It is not a random place where God has placed you.
Maybe, just maybe, it is a season of Grace in the Waiting.
The place where He is renewing your strength as you wait on Him.
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