Strength for the waiting

Notice the order: wings, then running, then walking. It reads like a descent, and that is the mercy of it. Some days are eagle days — rare, soaring, effortless. More days are running days. And a great many days are simply walking days, where the whole assignment is to keep going and not faint.

The promise covers all three. God does not only show up for the soaring; He strengthens the trudge. There is no day so ordinary that this verse is not about it.

And the strength has one source: waiting on the LORD. Waiting here is not idleness — it is the daily returning, the looking up before setting out, the refusal to run on yesterday’s reserves. Strength is renewed, the verse says. Which means it was always meant to be collected fresh, morning by morning.