The Power to Endure

By J.D. Jones

Our promises: 1. Our goal is to bring you high quality Christian publications at reasonable and affordable prices. Therefore all of our works are complete and unabridged unless specifically stated otherwise, which means that unlike some other independent publications you get what you see and pay for. No unplesant surprises. 2. We endeavour to bring you updated editions of classic works. Therefore this work is not a scan, but is a completely digitized version of the original. 3. Unlike, many other independently published works, our publications are easy to read. Therefore you won't find illegible, faded, poor quality photocopies here. Neither will you find poorly done OCR versions of those faded scans either, with illegible "words" that contain all kinds of strange characters like ?, %, &, etc. Our publications have all been looked over and corrected by the human eye. 4. We can't promise perfection, but we're sure gonna try! ONE OF THE MOST FREQUENTLY QUOTED VERSES IN THE WHOLE OF THE BIBLE IS THAT VERSE IN WHICH THE PROPHET ISAIAH SPEAKS OF THE RESULTS OF "WAITING UPON GOD." "THEY THAT WAIT UPON THE LORD," HE SAYS, "SHALL RENEW THEIR STRENGTH." And the proof he gives that the people who thus wait upon the Lord have really renewed their strength is that "they shall mount up with wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint." They shall fly ... they shall run ... they shall walk. The sequence is not what we should expect. It would have sounded more natural if the order had been reversed, if it had begun with the "walking" and ended with the "flying." Walking ... running ... flying, that is how we should have put it if we wanted the sentence to rise to a climax. But, as the prophet puts it, it reads like a descending and diminishing promise, finishing in a kind of anti-climax. As the greatest of the commentators on Isaiah puts it: "Soaring, running, walking; and is not the next stage, a cynic might ask, standing still?"

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1521935777
• ISBN13: 9781521935774
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.1" x 5.0"