Fly, Eagles Fly

It was Fannie Lou Hamer who said and popularized if not, coined the phrase, “I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired.” And if anyone could justify such a statement it was here. Raised as a sharecropper, the victim of a Mississippi appendectomy, poor most of her life, and suffered one of the most heinous police beatings and lived to tell about it on national television. She was tired of the pain she suffered, and she was tired of being tired. (Preach)

(Elaborate)

Waited until Sarah was old to open her womb

Waited until Moses exiled to call his name

Waited unto Joseph was lied on to elevate his position

Waited unto Sampson was blind to give him strength

Waited until Jeremiah cried to give him revelation

Waited until Peter was sinking until he lifted him up

Waited until Paul was in prison to shake the earth

Waited until Nazareth had stank until he raised him to life

He Sees your Stress

He sees your situation (v.27)

He sustains Creation (v.28a)

His was are not our ways (v.28b)

He’ll Give you Strength

Gives power to the faint?

When a boxer is getting beat and the loss is immanent, they throw in the towel. They quit. When an army is losing soldiers to fast, so fast, they can’t win or even retreat, they wave the white flag. They quit. When a wrestler is being dominated and on the brink of getting injured they tap out. They quit. When an animal such as a dog, has come to the understanding that their bark is actually stronger than their bite and they can’t win a their scuffle, the tuck tail and run. The quit.

“Quitting is not an option” some would say. Don’t give up, is the word of encouragement. But, in real life. Sometimes you don’t have a choice. Sometimes you are forced to quit. Sometimes that boxer gets knocked out, sometimes that army gets routed, sometimes that wrestle gets pinned, sometimes that dog gets mauled, sometimes you are forced to quite. But, the good news is that even in our fallen nature and human frailty there is a God who has never quit, and will never quit on you.

Derek Redmon-1992 Summer Olympics

He adds Stamina to your Strength

Even the youths shall faint and be weary and the young men shall fall

What do believers Do? We wait. (Wait also means hope)

But!-(v.31)

eagles-this is not a verse to champion pushing against the grain. This is a scripture that suggest that you rest and allow something greater than you, to work for you.

The ability to faint not, or to keep going is the indicator that the same strength that the Lord “who does not slumber nor sleep” or “get faint or weary” is now similarly manifest in the life of the Christian who is filled with the Spirit.