"Have you not known? Have you not heard?"

Here I am, about a month into classes. My body is sick and I can't function as well as I normally do. It's not ten p.m. and I feel like turning in. It's like my body's putting me in a food coma, but I didn't even eat that much. But I don't feel like I can sleep yet. Why? Well, consider the stress of having 5 tests this week. I'm really only concerned with one of them, and another I already took today, but that doesn't mean I can slack off. 

In the middle of all of this, the passage below has come to me twice in the span of eight days; once it came to mind, this second time in preparation for a Bible study. I definitely need it. I grow faint and weary; I'm exhausted. At times, I just want to fall down and give up, though the next second, I remember my God and how he gives us renewed strength. I hope this passage from the prophet Isaiah can encourage others who feel like they don't have any strength:

"Why do you say, O Jacob,
   and speak, O Israel,
 'My way is hidden from the LORD,
   and my right is disregarded by my God'?
Have you not known? Have you not heard?The LORD is the everlasting God,
   the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He does not faint or grow weary;
    his understanding is unsearchable.
He gives power to the faint,
   and to him who has no might he increases strength.
Even youths shall faint and be weary,
   and young men shall fall exhausted;
but they who wait for 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."


Isaiah 40:27-31


When I am weak, God is strong! Glory be to God! He knows exactly what's going on with me. I know that he has, is, and will give me all that I need to do the tasks he's put before me.