Life’s Real Journey Blog

“Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:” – Isaiah 40:30 I have learned SO MUCH about who God is just in this chapter. Verse 28 especially describes the power, endurance, and energy of our Creator. This all sounds so good and it...

“He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.”  Isaiah 40:29 Physically exhausted and emotionally drained - can you identify with these symptoms?  Perhaps you are worn-out after a season of care giving, a college paper, a...

  "Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding." -Isaiah 40:28 [Brief re-cap of yesterday's post: Israel is so...

“Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?” -Isaiah 40:27 I know the title seems almost silly. I know we can't shock God. Yet, as I read the words of this verse, I feel that there is a...

"Is God able to deliver me?" The question haunted me. I had fallen to yet another temptation the night before, and for some reason I could not bring myself to believe the answer I knew to be true. I knew it in my head. I've grown up singing the chorus "He is able to...

“To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.” Isaiah 40:25 Wow, it is already 25 days into this New Year. Time moves so swiftly. I hope and pray that this chapter has been a blessing to you, I know it has been to me. As we come to today’s...

“Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.” (Isaiah 40:24) I don't know if I will ever...

“Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in; who brings princes to nothing, and makes the rulers of the earth as emptiness.” Isaiah 40:22b-23 If you know anything about the stars and the universe, you know they’re really big...

“It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers;” Isaiah 40:22a This verse tells me something so simple and yet so profound about God. God is BIG! Now, I'm sure you all knew that, but just think again with me what it means...

"Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?" -Isaiah 40:21 Knowing, hearing, being told, and understanding that God is the maker of heaven and earth and the only true...