NEW STRENGTH

 

"But those who trust in the LORD will

find new strength.  They will soar high

on wings like eagles.  They will run and

not grow weary.  They will walk and not

faint." 

(Isiah 40:31 NLT)

So, what does a verse of Scripture have to

do with some pictures of old tree stumps

around the yard?

Let me bore. you with a little back ground.

Then hopefully it will make more sense.

Back when I was younger - only 79 - my body

quit making blood.  You may not know it, but

you have to have blood to live.  They called

it "acquired aplastic anemia", what ever that

is.  I was in the hospital four different times

for a week each.  And I was living on other 

peoples blood for at least a year or more.

God gave me healing, but that is another story.

I am only 87 years old now, but lately I have 

been feeling like the end was coming.  I was

just running out of gas and wondered how long

it might before I followed my wife in death.

I try to pray about everything.  That of course

includes life it's self.  And the one verse of 

Scripture that kept coming to my mind was 

the one above.

I kept reminding the Lord that I needed strength.

And that I trusted, waited on, or hoped in him.

[Depending on what version you are reading from.]

I felt the need to get out and "get with it", or do

something.  So the last two weeks I have been

taking old tree stumps out of the yard.  Thus

far I have only taken out three.  

BUT PRAISE GOD,

it has made me feel like a new man.

God did supply the strength needed.