“There is not a word on my tongue, but look! O Jehovah, you already know it well.” (Psalm 139:4, NWT)

Have you ever sat in silence, unsure how to explain yourself? Have you ever swallowed a sob, too tired to pray? What if you knew that Jehovah already understood the word you could not speak? Before your lips move, before your mind can arrange a single phrase, Jehovah knows. He knows the fear that seizes your chest like iron. He knows the racing thoughts that will not be quiet. He knows the wound hidden in your silence. He knows.

The world is quick to overlook, to shrug at suffering, to measure people by what they can produce. But Jehovah is different. Where others may dismiss you, he leans closer. Where the world sees weakness, he sees worth. His knowing is not casual awareness; it is tender attention.

And if he knows this deeply, what will he do with that knowledge?

He promises.

“They will not cause any harm or any ruin in all my holy mountain, because the earth will certainly be filled with the knowledge of Jehovah as the waters cover the sea.” (Isaiah 11:9, NWT)

Can you picture it — a world where harm simply ceases to exist? What would it feel like to wake up to that kind of peace? Could anything compare to a knowledge so vast it leaves no room for fear? Imagine Jehovah’s knowledge like a rising sea — wave upon wave, sweeping over valleys, cresting over ridges, touching every place. No injustice left standing. No wound left unattended. No cry left unanswered.

But until the tide rises to its fullest, we still walk the shorelines of a broken world. Do you feel that tension — knowing what is coming, yet living in what still is? How do we endure in this in-between?

Jehovah does not only promise; he acts.

He strengthens.

“And may you be strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may endure fully and be patient with joy.” (Colossians 1:11, NWT)

Have you felt your own strength fail you? What if you drew instead from his glorious might — the very power that raised Christ? Would your steps feel lighter, your heart steadier, your spirit more at peace? His strength is not rationed in teaspoons. It is poured out according to his glorious might — boundless, immeasurable, eternal. Out of that strength comes endurance. Patience. Even joy.

But does this really happen? Or is it just words on a page?

Lives in Russia — Jehovah’s Strength Made Visible

When you hear of Oleg Danilov, imprisoned for his faith, do you wonder how he endures? Could it be anything but Jehovah’s spirit that keeps joy alive in a cell? Oleg himself reflects on his grandparents and uncle, who faced persecution under the Soviet Union, and he says their joy under trial proves the power of Jehovah’s spirit. If Jehovah sustained them then — is he not sustaining Oleg now?

And what of four brothers — Oleg Katamov, Aleksey Kuznetsov, Aleksandr Shchetinin, and Aleksandr Starikov — sentenced to six years in prison? Imagine the moment the gavel struck. Would your heart not tremble? Yet one recalls how the tools Jehovah provides — his Word, his people, his spirit — calm him under pressure. Another says, “Fear of Jehovah gives me strength.” If Jehovah steadies them behind bars, will he not also steady you in your daily storms?

What about the families in Yaroslavl who watched homes invaded and property confiscated? Could their endurance come from anywhere but Jehovah? What about the 75-year-old brother in Chelyabinsk, sentenced at an age when most men can barely carry their own bodies? Is it not Jehovah who carries him still?

When you read their stories, do you not feel the truth of Colossians 1:11 pulsing like a heartbeat? Human weakness meets divine strength. Promises become real. Endurance grows.

Your Quiet Struggles Matter Too

But what if your trial is not a courtroom or a prison? What if it is the heavy fog of depression that will not lift? What if it is the strain of bills that never match the paycheck? What if it is the quiet, exhausting labor of caring for someone day after day?

Do these struggles matter less to Jehovah? Does he only strengthen in dramatic trials? Or does his power flow just as surely to the one who sits crying in a parked car as to the one who sits in a prison cell?

If Jehovah strengthens them, can you not trust he will strengthen you?

Drawing It Close

So ask yourself — what if you truly believed this right now? What if you rested in the certainty that Jehovah knows, that he promises, that he strengthens? Wouldn’t your heart breathe easier? Wouldn’t your spirit rise?

He knows.

He promises.

He strengthens.

Always.

“There is not a word on my tongue, but look! O Jehovah, you already know it well.” (Psalm 139:4, NWT)