Read This If You’re Exhausted and Feel Like God Has Forgotten You
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Updated 52 minutes ago, December 19, 2025
Isaiah 40:31 — “Those who trust in the Lord shall renew their strength.”
God wants you to know that when you feel worn down, emptied out, or unsure how to take another step, trust becomes the place where your strength begins again. When you lean into Him fully, and honestly—even with shaking hands—He restores what life has drained. He gives endurance where you feel depleted, clarity where you feel overwhelmed, and the quiet courage to keep moving when everything in you wants to stop.
Trust isn’t passive. It is choosing to believe God will make a way even when you cannot see one. It is choosing to hope when fear grows loud. It is choosing to walk forward knowing He is already preparing the path beneath your feet.
Trust in the Lord, and your strength will return in ways you didn’t know you could feel again.
Reflection
Trust is often built in the moments where you feel the weakest. It is in those seasons—when your energy is low, your answers are unclear, and your heart feels pulled in every direction—that God steps in and strengthens you from the inside out. He doesn’t ask you to manufacture courage; He asks you to lean on Him so He can supply what you lack.
Strength from God doesn’t always come as a sudden surge. Sometimes it arrives quietly: the unexpected peace in your chest, the calmer thoughts, the steadier breath, the reminder that you are held. Renewal isn’t always loud, but it is always real.
If you’re tired, you are not failing—you are human. And God is meeting you in that place with the strength to begin again.