JEHOVAH EMPOWERS THE TIRED ONE

'Jehovah Is Our Vital Energy

Our heavenly Father is "vigorous in power" and can easily invigorate us.  In fact, we are told:  "[Jehovah] is giving to the tired one power; and to the one without dynamic energy he makes full might abound. Boys will both tire out and grow weary, and young men themselves will without fail stumble, but those who are hoping in Jehovah will regain power.  They will mount up with wings like eagles.  they will run and not grow weary; they will walk and not tire out."  (Isaiah 40:29-31)  Because of  increasing pressures, we may sometimes feel like and exhausted runner whose legs seem unable to carry him any farther.  But the finish line in the race for life is just ahead, and we must not give up.     (2 Chronicles 29:11)  Our adversary, the Devil, is roving about "like a roaring lion,"  and he wants to stop  us.  (1 Peter 5:8)  Let us remember that 'Jehovah is our strength and our shield,'  and he  has made abundant provisions 'to give the tired one power.' -Psalm 28:7.

Jehovah gave David the strength needed to carry on in the face of great obstacles.  With full faith and confidence.   David therefore wrote:  "By God we shall gain gain vital energy, and he himself will tread down our adversaries."  (Psalm 60:12) Jehovah also energized Habakkuk so that he might complete his assignment as prophet.  Says Habakkuk  3:1:  "Jehovah the Sovereign Lord is my vital energy, and he will make my feet like those of the  hinds, and upon  my high places he will cause me to tread."  Also noteworthy is the example of Paul, who wrote:  "For all things I have the strength by virtue of [God] who imparts power to me." -Philippians 4:13.

Like David, Habakkuk, and Paul, we should exercise faith in God's ability to strengthen us and in his power to save us.  Aware that the Sovereign Lord Jehovah is our Source of "vital energy," let us now consider some ways to draw spiritual strength from provisions that God  makes in abundance.

Next time: Spiritual Provisions to Invigorate Us

Watchtower, 2000