Daily Manna · Day 275 · October 2
Strength When Heart Fails
“My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.”
You are running on fumes, and it is not a crisis, which is the tiring part.
Asaph is not reaching for a figure of speech. He had watched corrupt men prosper until his own footing nearly went, and he admits the collapse without dressing it: my flesh and my heart faileth. Then the small word the whole verse turns on. But. Not a boost to what is left. A replacement for what is gone, and a portion that outlasts the body that failed. There is no requirement here to manufacture strength you do not have. You may lean.
Daily Manna runs on a two-year cycle. The year two reading for day 275 is Much and Little (Exodus 16:18).