Watch this. Three minutes. Then three questions below it.
Braddock refuses to give up his welfare money when he starts earning again. He returns every dollar. The return is not legally required. It is the act of a man who knows the difference between what he owes and what integrity costs.
Perseverance with integrity. Getting back up is the easy part to romanticize. Maintaining your character while you're getting back up is the harder work.
God's strength is available to the weary, not just the strong. The renewable resource is your hope in the Lord.
Cinderella Man is the film at the center of this study. The scene is chosen because it captures something true about the specific challenge this study addresses. The filmmakers may not have intended a theological reading, but the truth they captured is there regardless of intention.
Isaiah 40:31 sits inside a larger argument Paul or one of the other biblical authors is making about how the renewed life looks in practice. The verse is not a standalone principle. It is part of a sustained argument about what it looks like when a man actually believes what he says he believes on Sunday morning.
The connection between this film and this Scripture is the same one that runs through every study in this series: what a man sees in the mirror when he watches that clip is exactly the gap this Scripture addresses. The film names the problem. The Scripture names the source and the solution.