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This sounds as if they were in danger of becoming weary and faint in their minds. (2) Our manifold afflictions (Hebrews 12:5). There are many temptations to resist, and many afflictions to endure, and many duties to perform.3. Hours of holy exultation are necessary for hours of patient plodding, waiting and working. Ward Beecher.What are some of the methods by which men, in the Divine economy, advance in spiritual impulse, and rise permanently higher?1. (1) The calm of a believing soul may be heightened into a kind of ecstasy. And it is this that tries our mettle most of all. "Renew" means to "change your strength."1. It's a sorry thing to begin with the eagle's flight and come down to four miles an hour! What cares the eagle, as he bathes his wings in the translucent gold of the upper sky, for all the turmoil, the dust, or even the murky clouds that drift far beneath him? He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might He increaseth strength.' )Waiting upon GodT. But this is not true of all. Horton, D. D.Profane and desperate persons fly off in a discontent and impatience, like Jehoram (2 Kings 6:33). And those who believe that their ordinary life has a Divine significance that it is as the rough scaffolding within which a very temple may be built and who are striving to live daily as under the eye of the heavenly Friend, have within their souls a peace which keeps them from "fainting."(T. ''Have ye not known, have ye not heard? (4) Humility, meekness, peace, and joy may not seem, at first view, to contribute anything to strength, but in truth they are among the necessary elements of this vigour of mind. They get filled. It is often found in persons of weak understanding, and in minds not highly cultivated by refined education.3. And we renew our strength for all enterprise which makes demand on our courage and truthfulness.2. There is the strength of temper, and natural constitution, and a man may be able both to do and suffer very much by it. "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. Good Christians shall through God's grace grow stronger and stronger. What cares the eagle, as he bathes his wings in the translucent gold of the upper sky, for all the turmoil, the dust, or even the murky clouds that drift far beneath him? Our text speaks not only of flying, but of running and walking. "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." We use it, too, with reference to the holding of an interview with a superior: a deputation "waits" upon the Prime Minister; the Prime Minister "waits" upon His Majesty. "They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength."II. )Strength helping weaknessF. This is the religion of the Bible: is it not a noble thing? This is the religion of the Bible: is it not a noble thing? So in religion there often is observed an unnatural energy and enthusiastic vehemence. Reviving Grace. There is no weariness in love. First comes the "flying" stage. Yet I venture to question whether such a discourse would strike the central teaching of the prophet. THE CONDITION of all this. 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: 1871, This Sermon was Originally Printed"Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God." Consideration of an objection taken from various passages in Moses. II. This is the religion of the Bible: is it not a noble thing? The whole world is God's; the heaven, even the heaven of heavens are the Lord's and he reigneth among the children of men. Cf. They shall walk and not faint words which seem to denote consistency in common daily life. They shall find a supply of Divine help proportioned to their trials. We cannot, indeed, manufacture inspiration; but what if the "breath of God" comes upon us and finds our souls too dull or too distracted to respond to its subtle influences? These are auxiliaries to religion, if not a part of it. The inimitable simplicity which characterizes every, THE passage in Isaiah which I have just read in your hearing may be used as a very eloquent description of our mortality, and if a sermon should be preached from it upon the frailty of human nature, the brevity of life, and the certainty of death, no one could dispute the appropriateness of the text. THE HOPES THAT ARE BASED ON FAITH GIVE STRENGTH TO LIVE FOR GOD. We often say that "knowledge is power": certainly, ignorance of.the truth of God is weakness.2. 9. )The power to realise idealsF. Through this gate of tribulation Israel enters into the kingdom of holiness. Is prayer less a privilege than it has John Ross MacduffThe Faithful Promiser"And the Redeemer Shall Come unto Zion, and unto them that Turn,"Isaiah lix. He mounted up on eagle's wings to meet the down-coming Spirit of the Father. He was that, but that is not the last analysis of the character of the Lord Jesus Christ. Once more, if I am to wait upon the Lord aright I must study well what this word "wait" in itself implies. V. Tymms.It is a great mistake to suppose that only the puny are liable to downfalls. F. W. H. MYERS. But who is not weary, sometimes, in well-doing! 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. Wrong may prosper for a time. Reviving Grace. Every thing is beautiful in its season. If you are to wait aright upon the Lord, you must learn to know Him, you must turn away your thoughts and eyes and heart and trust from everything, and set them upon God alone, My conduct in waiting for a man, or waiting on him, will depend entirely upon what I think of him. Whether it be philanthropic, political, social, or religious, that seems to be tram. This mood comes at the beginning, and not at the end of our career. The men who led the remnant back were God-fearing men like Ezra and Zerubbabel, men who waited on God. The deliverance has made the singer look forward to the end, and his confidence in the issue is confirmed. WHAT IS THE ISSUE OF SUCH WAITING UPON GOD? (b)But a little time, and much time lost already. 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. By continually waiting upon God. It is very easy to misunderstand this word "wait," and regard it as meaning inactive passivity. "THEY THAT WAIT UPON THE LORD SHALL RENEW THEIR STRENGTH."1. They are interlocked, as it were, by the recurrence in the latter of the emphatic words of the former. Yet the power of thus rising on eagle's wings is not the only quality to be noticed in this symbolism. The prophet is not speaking of three rates of motion, but he is rather speaking of the active motion and then onward continuance. Do not books? 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. Becoming weak as water, he shall not excel (Genesis 49:4).2. )Mounting up; running; walkingF. Even the drudgery of life can be transfigured in the light of the Father's love. It is for God's glory and our own usefulness.III. If public worship helps you to this direct personal communion with God, I need not say you are bound to attend it; you are sure to do so of your own free will without any pressure. But the Christian has had that care upon his heart daffy, and he knows how to bear it, and before whom to lay it. To speak of a man as able to strengthen himself, so as to dispense with Divine aid, is as unreasonable as it is unscriptural As well might you talk of a leafless tree clothing itself with verdure without the vernal sun as well of an enfeebled body recovering tone and energy without the reviving air of heaven. "Run without weariness."3. He has kept the world going all these ages; and my short life of sixty, seventy, or eighty years will my God not care for and maintain that? 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. But this is not true of all. THE SUPPORT OF LIFE'S JOURNEY. What is the reason of all this? In point of honour, and that especially with God Himself. We often say that "knowledge is power": certainly, ignorance of.the truth of God is weakness.2. 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. Horton, D. D.This it nearly concerns us to do upon these considerations.1. The whole world is God's; the heaven, even the heaven of heavens are the Lord's and he reigneth among the children of men. By waiting on the Lord the stream flows into its appointed bed. To think that we are labouring in vain is the thought that paralyses. (2) Our manifold afflictions (Hebrews 12:5). All these evils, so full of fierce and destructive energies, will soon be as the dust beneath our feet. To "look off" unto the eternal, to get behind the veil into the realm of true being is the need of the fevered and exhausted soul. )The blessedness of Divine serviceD. This seems to be the proper sense and meaning. hath it not been told yon from the beginning? It is in the period of youth that we have our ambitious dreams, and take our higher flights. How much of meaning is couched in those two words, "My people!" Horton, D. D.This it nearly concerns us to do upon these considerations.1. Tymms. 3ACCORDING to the Synoptic Gospels, the public appearance and preaching of John was the fulfilment of the prediction with which the second part of the prophecies of Isaiah opens, called by the Rabbis, the book of consolations.' Horton, D. D.Profane and desperate persons fly off in a discontent and impatience, like Jehoram (2 Kings 6:33). Running is undignified, say some, it is more stately to walk, more dignified even to sit still. Any special duty, also, tends, by its very specialty, to brace us for the doing of it; there is, moreover, the goal in view, and the prize to be won. --The Setting up of Idols a Defection from the True God. Hence it is for these that the prophet chiefly writes. II. There is the strength of civility and moral principles. To do this makes greater demands upon our moral steadfastness than to do either of the before-mentioned stages in our life experience. We like a little bit of excitement or emotion. Anderson. We rejoice in the earliest flower because it is the earliest, and we rejoice in the latest flower because it is the latest; but do what you will, you cannot make the aster blossom in spring. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain. And this is done commonly, in the greatest uncertainty whether the means will prove effectual.2. Faith can work miracles. The nature of each man's hopes will be in accordance with his ruling desires, and the amount of his hopefulness will depend on that to which he trusts for the fulfilment of his desires. Spiritual weakness is a disparagement, especially as a relapse, and after some former degrees of strength. Not so; for the religion of the Bible is this: mounting up with wings of eagles, running and not wearying, walking and not fainting. We renew our strength to meet misfortunes and to carry our load of grief or bereavement, to keep a cheerful heart under the depression of disease, and when chilled by the cold shadow of death. 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. But waiting on the Lord implies much more than this. Funny how so many churchgoers sing "Standing on the Promises" but all they do is sit on the premises. )Despondency and hopefulnessW. This is different, and surpassing the other. 5 Then at thy feet Isaac WattsHymns and Spiritual SongsAt RestGerhard Ter Steegen Is. Waiting, in Scripture language, is a term used to denote dependence. Poor and barren and diseased must that heart be which has no song of praise to sing, no gratitude to pour forth for past deliverances and for present mercies, which has no emotion of adoring love for a goodness so infinite and untiring. It means prayer much more than an occasional supplication, however real; it means persistent, persevering, continual prayer; it means an abiding attitude of trustful dependence upon God; it means all that is wrapped up in those beautiful words, "Oh, rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him"; it means trust in the Lord and do good; it means trust in the Lord at all times, for with Him is everlasting strength, and have no confidence in self.2. How is this renewing influence, then, to be obtained? And his incomparableness26. Let us, therefore, see what there is in reserve for us in the large world into which Isaiah is prepared to conduct us We are at once made aware of its vastness, to the expanding and refreshing of our spirits, for we are brought face to face with God in all the majesty of His perfections: the infinite Greatness, to which the nations are as the small dust of the balance. L. Wiseman, B. 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. The highest strength is not physical nor intellectual, but moral. Running is undignified, say some, it is more stately to walk, more dignified even to sit still. We must renew our strength, for it is for our honour, comfort, and safety.4. Alfred EdersheimThe Life and Times of Jesus the MessiahJustification. Because they are imperfect.3. Hours of holy exultation are necessary for hours of patient plodding, waiting and working. And indeed that is a great part of wisdom, to bring forth everything in its season, to discern when and where, and to whom it is pertinent and edifying, to speak such and such truths. "They Shall Mount up with Wings" (Isa. 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." It is not only an act, but a gracious habit of mind (Psalm 25:5).4. They shall walk and not faint words which seem to denote consistency in common daily life. You have learnt that to your sorrow by the bitter teaching of experience. 1 Father, I long, I faint to see The place of thine abode, I'd leave thy earthly courts and flee Up to thy seat, my God! The energy of this life manifests itself in various ways. Howells. HOW SHOULD SPIRITUAL STRENGTH BE EXHIBITED?1. What a cheering revelation: "Your God!" (2) While only the few can thus fly, many can only run. One man's desires, and therefore his hopes, will go forth in the direction of the pleasures of sense. In rapturous contemplation of the things of God. The boy who never knew what it was to be fagged out at school is not worth much. 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. God seems to observe in spiritual things a similar order to that which exists in natural things. V. Tymms.It is a great mistake to suppose that only the puny are liable to downfalls. 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. Experience has proved that, to a great many souls, public worship is the greatest help they ever get, that it gives wings to their holiest prayers and brightness to their gladdest songs of praise, and that it does bring them nearer to God than any other external agency that they know of. All this renewal of vitality was the result of waiting on one of those wonderful healthfountains. They are both to be censured and pitied.4. They are interlocked, as it were, by the recurrence in the latter of the emphatic words of the former. It puts forth its utmost strength in rising towards its Source when the Christian enters into fellowship with the Father and the Son.1. THE NATURE OF THIS GREAT BLESSING WHICH GOD HAS ASSURED TO ALL THAT WAIT UPON HIM. Which God Do You Want? And the first thing that strikes us is the language used by the prophet language so far removed from mere formal expression. 3. 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