Our question for today comes from Isaiah 40:6.
“What shall I say?”
Isaiah had just heard the voice of God telling him to cry out. But cry out what? What do you say when your strength is spent and your heart feels hollow? When the people are worn down, the days are heavy, and hope is a whisper barely heard?
So Isaiah did what many of us do—he asked the honest question: “What shall I say?”
You’ve likely asked it, too. At a hospital bedside. In a funeral line. On a sleepless night. When someone you love is hurting and you don’t have the words. What do you say when silence feels safer than saying the wrong thing?
God gave Isaiah a message—and it’s the one we still need today: Life is short, but God is steady. “All flesh is like grass,” He said. “The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever.”
That’s what you say.
You speak of the God who doesn’t change. You remind weary hearts that God is still here, still near, and still strong. He will work things out —in the end.
I’m Lonnie Davis, and these are thoughts worth thinking.