There must be approach to God.2. But how does He leave it? They wait with submission and resignation. L. Wiseman, B. What do you say, Christian tradesman you upon whom God hath laid the responsibilities of home and family you Christian citizen-you whom the arrows of affliction have wounded you proclaimer of the Lord's message?2. Horton, D. D.is amplified by a resemblance to a threefold motion.1. WHAT IS THIS WAITING?1. The expression "wait upon" is a most felicitous one, because while it includes prayer it means and covers so much more.1. And that power God has provided. V. Tymms.I. 1. Hast thou not known? Every thing is beautiful in its season. --ISAIAH xl. Then I repaired to one of the tonic springs and "waited" on its bubbling waters, trusting them and taking them into my system. The highest point in his destiny is to be conformed to the image of the Son of God. This large world, the spiritual, into which Isaiah has ushered us, includes all worlds, for it is as limitless as its Ruler. (1) The eagle is an emblem of strength renewed (Psalm 103:5). 31. We like a little bit of excitement or emotion. Many things he desires to do but cannot. Funny how big an hour serving God looks and how small 60 minutes are when spent playing golf, fishing or shopping. Voysey, B. Do not newspapers? T he general style of the prophecies is poetical. There are conflicts to be endured with our spiritual foes, within our own hearts; we live in a world that is lying in wickedness; we have to do with matters concerning the present life that are often very trying and perplexing in their nature, and often is our courage likely to fail. When I have heard C. H. Spurgeon pray I have not been so astonished at some of his discourses. But they are only painted cloud. The river is God's infinite power; the channel is our conscious weakness. WHAT BENEFITS AND AIDS THEY RECEIVE WHO WAIT UPON THE LORD. "They shall mount up with wings as eagles," is God's preliminary; for the next promise is, "They shall run and not be weary, and they shall walk and not faint." Horton, D. D.)Strength for strengthT. 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. A change from one kind of strength to another. Waiting upon the Lord includes expectation. T. This reputation led to his being called to the Central Church, Chicago, in which he succeeded Dr. David Swing, and where from the first he attracted audiences completely filling one of the largest auditoriums in Chicago. 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. It is very easy to misunderstand this word "wait," and regard it as meaning inactive passivity. (1) The calm of a believing soul may be heightened into a kind of ecstasy. Hast thou less conscious nearness to the mercy-seat,--diminished communion with thy Saviour? He had "run" swiftly to and fro on many an errand of evangelisation; but he does not dwell on these as having called forth any remarkable manifestations of the Divine helpfulness. Because they wanted this principle of spiritual strength.3. And then we come to the quiet, steady, persistent "walk." If you and I have this grace, and if we practise it, what may we expect?1. But the prophet has a deeper thought than this. Another sense in which the word "waiting" occurs in Scripture is, a willingness to be directed by the person waited upon. 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. All things are possible to him that believeth. The preaching of the apostles foretold12. I turn now to dwell on THE NATURAL EFFECTS OF WAITING ON THE LORD, as stated by the prophet, and vouched for by myriads of the faithful and devout in all ages.1. It seemed impossible that these few exiles could escape from those nations, and go back to their own land and restore their institutions, but they did. If then those who run are not weary, the same when they walk shall not faint. That is a very lame finish. If we can bring these two together, what a wondrous thing will happen! Reasons for this prohibition from Moses, Isaiah, and Paul. "Mount up with wings as eagles, run, walk," and one might almost dare to add a fourth "stand still!"(F. hath it not been told yon from the beginning? The energy of this life manifests itself in various ways. We traverse the solid unromantic ground of principle, while the ghost of many a shattered illusion haunts our path. 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. This threefold description of mounting up, running and walking, presents three aspects of the same character. All flesh is aa grass. It puts before us the thought, not of a new gift, but of a new experience of an old gift. --ISAIAH xl. There had been no heaven-sent sign to assure them that there was any F. (Andrew Murray. "They shall mount up with wings as eagles," is God's preliminary; for the next promise is, "They shall run and not be weary, and they shall walk and not faint." When the earth is parched with the heat of summer, and its productions begin to languish from excessive drought, it is watered and refreshed by the showers of heaven, and its various plants and fruits not only resume their former health and vigour, but spring up and flourish with greater luxuriance than before. Becoming weak as water, he shall not excel (Genesis 49:4).2. L. Wiseman, B. A.Mount up with wings as eagles, run, walk. Exuberance of holy feeling is not a thing to be manufactured. The result will be as it is figuratively expressed: We shall mount up; we shall run; we shall walk.I. L. Wiseman, B. A.But is the prophet translated rightly? judgement and then a new heaven and new earth (just. The deliverance has made the singer look forward to the end, and his confidence in the issue is confirmed. "These wait all upon Thee; that Thou mayest give them their meat in due season." THE GENERAL PROPOSITION. Wait for the power of the Holy Spirit every day. Horton, D. D."Change their strength" (marg.). Though it seems tiny, it is real fire, and it can set the world ablaze. Luther calls it: "The doctrine of a standing or a falling church," i.e., as a church holds fast and appropriates this doctrine she remains pure and firm, and as she departs from it, she becomes corrupt and falls. The love of created things is deceiving and unstable, but the love of Jesus is faithful and lasting. "He shall mount up." And it is this that tries our mettle most of all. We fret and chafe in our sufferings and under our chastisements, when to patience and meekness the God of all comfort comes with His sweetest and most refreshing revelations. 20.--"And the Redeemer shall come unto Zion, and unto them that turn," &c. Doctrines, as things, have their seasons and times. They shall run, or march on, and not be weary. )Untiring progressF. He never is weary. The strength spoken of is a moral, or more properly a spiritual quality. "(5) The only other ingredient of spiritual strength is zeal, zeal according to knowledge. But, for the most part, these exhaustive pleasures rapidly fret away that on which they depend. 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." That is a very lame finish. (Job Orton. "(5) The only other ingredient of spiritual strength is zeal, zeal according to knowledge. Jones. )The source and design of spiritual strengthF. And this is true to life" "They shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run; they shall walk." We belong to a better time, but still we can feel its grandeur. 1The HarbingerThe voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD , make straight in the desert a high-way for our God. (2) In the subject, for the former strength is only in the outward, this in the inward man. THE MANNER IN WHICH WE ARE TO WAIT UPON GOD.1. )Despondency and hopefulnessW. Halsey.The spiritual teaching of this verse is, that for all the stages and moods of our life-pilgrimage Heaven's grace is available and sufficient.(J. B. MeyerJohn the BaptistImpiety of Attributing a visible Form to God. 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. 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. The least that.it can mean is they shall stand their ground.3. 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. The Christian makes a hopeful start in his course of service when he clearly realises the spiritual security of his own position.2. We are not to devote all our lives to lonely musing. To think that we are labouring in vain is the thought that paralyses. This is a mounting up on wings, as compared with which the rest are but running and walking. There are two wings in our spiritual ascent faith and obedience. )Waiting upon the LordJ. John 16:16-22; Isaiah 40:25-31. What a cheering revelation: "Your God!" True piety has no greater enemy than fanaticism, which some are so undiscriminating as to confound with the fervours of true religion. They shall grow more steady and established in religion. They are interlocked, as it were, by the recurrence in the latter of the emphatic words of the former. His Cross. But when the Holy Spirit enters into any man, his thoughts and affections are raised to those things which are above. But we have good reason to believe that the prophet drew his imagery from familiar objects in the land of exile. Of those whom he hath chosen, whom he hath purchased to himself, he saith what he saith not of others. "My eyes are unto Thee; my expectation is from Thee."3. Where there is strength there will be diligence in well-doing. Read full chapter. But as they came round the curve from one line to the other friction and gravitation asserted their power. THE SEVERAL BRANCHES OF THE PROMISE.(S. )The source and design of spiritual strengthF. There is little or no effort in holy ecstasy, and its very joy is an inspiration. 3. This seems to be the proper sense and meaning. God never expects more from us than He has already given. 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