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How To Soar #RTTBROS #Nightlight #BibleWisdomDaily

The other day I was out watering the flowers and I noticed a hummingbird feeding at some wildflowers that I had planted , And I started to think about our own efforts in faith. We build up a rhythm, don't we? A constant flapping. Dozens of beats a second, just to keep going. It's impressive, that hummingbird. It’s pure energy, and you know that if that frantic flapping stops for even a second, it hits the dirt. That’s how I think many of us get our faith—by sheer, exhausting willpower. We flap, we push, we try harder, just to stay in the air.

But Isaiah gives us a vision of something quite different. He tells us in Isaiah forty, verse thirty-one: "But 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, and they shall walk and not faint."

Now, what does the eagle do? An eagle isn't a hummingbird. It doesn't fight the wind with its own muscle. It finds a rising current. It simply spreads its wings and lets the Spirit of God lift it higher and higher, hardly needing to expend its own strength. It’s a beautiful shift in perspective, isn't it? The invitation isn't to try harder. It’s to stop flapping and start trusting the current.

It changes everything when you understand that God’s job is to change our reliance, not just our effort.

If you are feeling the weariness today, worn out from years of keeping your head above water, Isaiah offers a path upward. It asks us to exchange the hummingbird's frantic motion for the eagle's steady lift.

I leave you with a few thoughts on how we can start waiting.

First, you have to be still. Waiting is not doing nothing; it is suspending our own plans long enough to feel the wind beneath us.

Second, you have to look up. We get so busy looking at our feet that we forget to see the currents God is already setting in motion around us.

Third, you have to practice letting go. The hardest part of waiting is releasing the grip on our own strength.

Closing prayer. Lord, I am tired of flapping just to stay afloat. Teach me to wait on you, to trust your Spirit's lift instead of my own strength, so I can soar instead of merely survive. In Jesus's name, amen.

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