Good morning Champion
What are you willing to lose to gain what you say you want? (Cont’d)
1 Kings 17: 11-14 (NKJV)
And as she was going to get it, he called to her and said, “Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.” 12 So she said, “As the LORD your God lives, I do not have bread, only a handful of flour in a bin, and a little oil in a jar; and see, I am gathering a couple of sticks that I may go in and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it, and die.” 13 And Elijah said to her, “Do not fear; go and do as you have said, but make me a small cake from it first, and bring it to me; and afterward make some for yourself and your son. 14 For thus says the LORD God of Israel: ‘The bin of flour shall not be used up, nor shall the jar of oil run dry, until the day the LORD sends rain on the earth.’”
Here we read of the account of when Elijah the prophet went to a widow that the Lord sent him to. The Lord had told Elijah that the widow would feed him, for he had been fed supernaturally by ravens till this point. He turned up and asked the woman for water and food and she responded by informing him about the severity of the life-threatening recession she was currently in. Did that stop the prophet asking for food? No, he wasn’t greedy, but he knew in his heart that God had a recession busting plan for this poor woman, and as with everything about God, it would involve faith!
Did she want to see that recession broken? Did she want her and her son to live on past that last meal? How much did she want that? Enough to lose something that seemed the only thing she had left?
This seems to portray God in a harsh light. Was God being cruel? No, the prophet told her what would happen if she would trust God, and just as with Peter getting out of the boat, a promise from God was given but the choice was still hers.
We too always have a choice to step out on the promises of God or stay in that which we reason to be safer. Maybe it was the desperation of the moment she was in that pushed her to go for it. Maybe it was the hungry look in the eyes of her son? But she did it. She dared to lose something that seemed to be what she needed, to gain what she really wanted. Read on because God came through as promised and she had provision for her and her child until the rains came or put another way, till the recession ended.
What God asks us to do sometimes may be perceived as Him being mean, but it is more likely it is Him giving us an invitation to a better moment. As with the widow, we all have to look at what we have, then look at what He is promising and then make a choice. Will we lose something by faith to gain something that is promised?
Bless you
Andy
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From Andy and the great big life team.
A devotional by Pastor Andy Elmes to inspire you with a godly thought to start your day well. God’s word is indeed the breakfast of champions.
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