Strength for They Who Have Noneنموونە

Addition and subtraction are relatively easy to understand, even for the most inept person. They are formulas that we use on an everyday basis, mostly without realizing it. When multiplication comes in, things get a little more complicated, especially when multiplying large numbers. However, as easy as it may be for some, the multiplication that appears in this passage does not make much sense to our intellect. This formula is from another world!

The part where God “gives” or “adds” strength to those who are tired implies that even though the person is tired, they still have some strength left. Well, being tired doesn't mean you don't have the energy to keep moving. In short, one can be tired physically, but also mentally, and emotionally, and we have even heard of spiritual fatigue. But tiredness does not imply zero strength. And this is where the formula presented here in this text in the Bible starts to look a bit funny.

Multiplication is easy to understand when you realize that it has to do with addition: because in multiplication, you add multiples of the same number. For example; 3 x 4 = 12. Which can also be translated as 3 + 3 + 3 + 3, that is, you add the 3, 4 times. Simple! But there is a multiplication table that is not talked about much and, until several years ago, it was not given the importance it deserved. And it is the table “0.” Until long ago, zero had no value. However, zero today is counted as a number, which completes the only 10 numbers we have in existence, numbers 0 through 9.

We can say that the 0 table is the easiest of all, since multiplying a number with 0, regardless of its value, the formula always equals zero. The zero table is considered a “Vacuum"... it is the vacuum cleaner of multiplication since any number you put in front of it disappears. I.E; 0 x 1 = 0... 0 x 1,000,000 = 0!

In the same biblical passage, God adds to the tired but multiplies the one who has ZERO strength. Wow! This formula obliterates the zero table and makes us think that God's mathematics is very different from ours. Whether we are weak, tired, or without strength, with Him, you will always have what you need to keep moving forward. How, you ask? The same biblical passage answers it in verse 31.