The Saturday after the Second Sunday after Trinity Sunday
Posted on July 5, 2025 by under
Scripture: Isaiah 40:27-31 (NKJV)
40:27 Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel:
“My way is hidden from the Lord, and my just claim is passed over by my God”?
28 Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable.
29 He gives power to the weak, and to those who have no might He increases strength.
30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall,
31 but those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.
Devotion
Isaiah describes Christians as “those who wait on the Lord.” Waiting is hard. The man who can wait shows profound self-control. Whether he waits for something he wants, waits before speaking, or waits before making rash plans, even the world recognizes him as having great strength of character. This is a form of that virtue called “temperance”, which St. Paul praises, saying, “Everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things” (1 Cor. 9:25). Consider the skilled athletes of our own time: it took years of patient training to get where they are, and they fasted from many bodily pleasures that would have interfered with their goals. And they do it, says St. Paul, “to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown” (1 Cor. 9:25). For the Christian, to “wait on the Lord” is both a virtue and a skill, and it requires faith, prayer, and the power of the Holy Ghost. But the Christian who has learned to wait possesses a strong faith indeed.
The Christian waits for something far more certain than the athlete. The athlete waits and trains for a prize, but he does not know what calamity may happen and, because of an accident, he may lose to someone weaker. But the Christian waits for a promise: “they shall mount up with wings like eagles.” That is, they shall be glorified with their Savior, Jesus Christ.
Collect: O Lord, Who never failest to help and govern those whom Thou dost bring up in Thy steadfast fear and love: Make us to have a perpetual fear and love of Thy holy Name; through Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, ever One God, world without end. Amen.
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
