Honey Drop 61 – Just Desserts for the Fainting and the Spent

eejoseph,

“He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might He increases strength.” Isaiah 40:29

The scene

A weary shepherd sits at the edge of the campfire glow.
The flock sleeps, but his heart does not.
He has poured out counsel, comfort, correction, and tears
until his own strength feels thin as smoke.
Across the field, another soul lies collapsed —
not faint, but spent.
And the shepherd realizes:
they are both held by the same God.

The comfort – the tension

The Tension:
Leaders often believe they must stay strong for others.
They hide their faintness,
bury their emptiness,
and pretend that “running out” is a failure of faith.
They fear that if they admit they’re spent,
God might step back instead of step in.

The Comfort:
But the verse refuses that lie.
Jah meets the faint with power and the spent with abundance.
He does not switch gods between stages.
He does not shame the empty.
He multiplies strength where there is none.
The shepherd and the sheep receive the same grace.

Lexical Brief:

  • הַיָּעֵף (hayya‘ef) — the faint, the one running out.
    An adjective used as a noun: a condition becoming a person.
  • אֵין־אוֹנִים (’ein onim) — the no might, the one who has nothing left.
    A noun phrase: not a description, but an identity.

The grammar moves from decline → emptiness, and the verbs match the movement:

  • He gives power to the faint.
  • He increases strength to the empty.

How sweet it is! Grace escalates as weakness deepens.

The drop

From faint to spent,
Jah does not change His posture toward you.
He gives to the one running out and multiplies strength to the one who has none.
Dear leader, Dear lamb,
your emptiness is not a threat to Him — it is the place where His abundance begins.

Poetic Flash: The God who meets the slipping overwhelms the spent.