How shall these fountains of filth become clear as crystal, pouring forth floods of living water and Divine praise? It must be, but how shall it be? You are pressed with duties, weary in body, and the appointed time slipped past. Yet if we are believers in Jesus, we are complete in Him, perfect in Christ Jesus, for He has put away all our iniquities and cast all our sins behind His back into the depths of the sea. Once let the soul have perfect peace through believing in its perfect purity in Christ, and the nearness of our access will be perfectly wonderful! Your schedule, your strength, your partnership, these things are not your own to perfect. He is a perfect Savior to carry on the work, and He will never want your help.
You cannot serve God, you cannot praise, you cannot pray, you cannot do anything without some expenditure of strength and, therefore, you need to have that strength renewed. Now that is just my text, "They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength." If they are apart from God, their strength will die out. But when they are linked to God and wait upon God for everything, casting their nothingness upon His Omnipotence, then shall they find their strength renewed. When there remains no strength in you, nor any ability of any kind or sort, then fling yourself upon the Divine strength and lay hold upon it. Give to God all your spiritual strength and whenever you feel that you are renewed in it, do not shake yourselves as though your strength were your own, but go forward in His might. The eagle's strength is renewed by the air he breathes, not here below, in this smoky atmosphere, but up there, in the clear azure, where all is bright. So breathe the pure air of His presence, and your youth will be renewed like the eagle's.
Does the Divine Law require, for our acceptance, perfect submission to the will of the Lord? Jesus has rendered it! Does it ask complete obedience to its precepts? He has presented the same! Christ was made a perfect Savior through sufferings, perfect as the captain of our salvation to finish the work. So far as the punishment of the law is concerned it is finished, and He has brought in a perfect righteousness. Wipe your eyes and smooth your brow and in the strength of the Eternal go to your life-battle. Bear your weariness with Him and then see what peace, what perfect peace, you will enjoy, even with sorrows surging round! "Peace! Perfect peace! By thronging duties pressed? To do the will of Jesus, this is rest." It is thrice blessed to live daily under a system of Divine Grace which gives a perfect deliverance from the guilt of sin; but this can never be separated from the desire to know deliverance from the power of sin. When you have submitted yourself completely and trusted entirely, setting both your strength and your weakness on one side and giving yourself up for God to use you, oh, then you shall renew your strength! Then go forward to renewed action. O blessed Spirit, awaken Your children to renewed consecration, renewed zeal, renewed delight in holy service and renewed hope of victory.
I will strengthen them, says the Lord. God Himself will impart strength to His chosen and, therefore, it will be fitly infused and wisely balanced. If Christ, who is perfect, will receive you, then fling yourself upon Him. May the Divine Teacher lead you into the deep things of God: "Peace, perfect peace, death shadowing us and ours? Jesus has vanquished death and all its powers." It is enough. The trumpet of victory almost sounds in your ears. You will not retreat. Play the man and win the day.
Prayer Focus: God, Thank You for loving me. Thank You for loving me, Jesus. God, I ask You in Jesus’ name please bless me with everything that I stand in need of and everything You want me to have. 
