The Promise of Comfort and Strength

27 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”?
28 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.
29 He gives power to the faint,
    and to him who has no might he increases strength.
30 Even youths shall faint and be weary,
    and young men shall fall exhausted;
31 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)
It's not fair.  Sometimes we don't say it (like a four-year old), but we think it. We look at life and think God is not being fair.  God's judgment was coming on Israel, and for very good reason. Our of despair some cried out to God - not to confess, but to complain, even as He is offering comfort in their distress (See the rest of the chapter.) Isaiah answers: "Where have you been? How did you miss it?" Our great Creator God is not asleep at the wheel, and He is not deaf to our cries. He does offer strength and hope in the hardest of times - even when we get ourselves in messes we deserve.  Just wait on the Lord - His timing, and His good and perfect will. He will see you through.