In reading Isaiah 51, we get a sense of the people in exile feeling tired and despairing. It is a picture of them in captivity yearning for liberty. In their despair, they felt as if God was asleep and nonchalant about their condition. So in verses 9 & 10, Isaiah is seen making a call to the Lord, beseeching Him to wake up and do what He did in the past when He delivered Israel from Egypt. His appeal was to God’s strength and ability to do so. The arm of the Lord is about the strength and ability of God. The two rhetorical questions in Isaiah 51:9-10 tell us that they remembered it was the Lord who had delivered them from their bondage of Egypt. Here the prayer was for God to wake up and intervene in their captivity and deliver them again.
It is not uncommon for people who are encumbered with the weight of their burden in life to feel as if God is far away, uncaring, and nonchalant about their plight. But the Psalmist who wrote Psalm 121 tells us that the Lord neither sleeps nor slumbers. He is fully aware of His children’s plight. When we are feeling the weight of a heavy burden, we need to heed the call to lift up our eyes to the Lord for that’s where our help will come from. What is troubling us that we feel as if God is uncaring? Let us not despair, instead lift our hearts to God and direct a prayer to Him. He is more than willing to come to our rescue. If we take the time to recall His past interventions in our lives, we will realize that He can and will do it again for us. Just call upon Him. He is only a prayer away!
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