They who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles.
Eagles don't fly by flapping harder than everything else. They find a rising current of air and let it carry them up without much effort at all. That image is doing a lot of work in this verse, and it's worth slowing down on.
Waiting isn't presented here as passive or wasted time. It's positioned as the actual mechanism — the thing that produces strength you couldn't have generated by pushing harder on your own. That cuts against how most of us solve exhaustion: work more, try harder, push through. This verse suggests a different move entirely — stop straining, and let something bigger lift you instead.
If you're running on empty right now, it might not be more effort you need. It might be the willingness to stop flapping and see what happens when you actually wait.
If you're exhausted from trying to power through everything alone, it might be worth finding out what it looks like to wait on someone bigger instead.
A short video on this is coming soon — for now, read on.