The Strength of God

"Has thou not known? Hast thou not heard that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? [...] He giveth power to the faint, and to them that have no might He increaseth strength...They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength...they shall run and not be weary, and they shall walk and not faint." Isaiah 40:28-31

The strength of our God is our strength. The strength that is unconquerable and unquenchable burns within us. The body may wear and wither, but the spirit will never fall or fail, for it is God's very Spirit. There is an immeasurable wealth of strength laid up within us that is not of us, and all things are now possible.
Two things must be remembered about this strength:

1. God gives it. It has no other source. All that it means to be a Christian is bound up in who God is; and the instant we focus on anything but Him, we cut ourselves off from the source, and all strength (and everything else) is gone. Remember: the enemy will lead you to yourself; God leads you to Himself.
2. God gives it in His time. "They that wait upon the Lord..." God gives us strength, but He does not give it willy-nilly. There will be times when you do not need strength, times when you need to remember the crushing weight of your weakness and be humbled under the mighty hand of God so that He may give you strength in His good time. The moments of weakness are just as vital as the moments of strength as long as they both lead you to Him.

"Limitless Strength.
Purpose for weakness.
My God supplies all my needs..."
-Jon Vowell