God Trains Elijah I Kings 17

 

I Kings 17- God Trains Elijah

 

Elijah walked into the court of Ahab and Jezebel and gave them the latest weather report. He told them that it wasn’t going to rain unless he said so and that he was leaving town. He had no intention of saying when it would rain again. He was a man who spoke boldly.

God told Elijah to go to the desert by a little stream in which he was to drink from. His food was to be delivered by Ravens. All was well with Elijah until the stream began to dry up. Elijah then learned a valuable lesson; he saw that his life was a dried-up brook. God was telling Elijah that he was not a strong, big, rugged individual. You are no stronger than the dried-up brook. There will be no strength for you until the water of life flows through you.

Elijah had to learn that. “God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confuse the things which are mighty.” I Cor. 1:27.

Then Elijah got up and went to Zarephath where a widow woman was gathering sticks. Elijah called to her and asked her to bring him a vessel of water. After the widow told him her story, Elijah told her to go into the house and make the cake. He assured her she was not going to die. Her and Elijah lived off the flour bin for many days. This nothing became something.

We are nothing until the water of life and the bread of life has been put into us.

Later, we read that the widow’s son died, and Elijah made contact with the boy’s body three times “and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.”

Until we recognize that we are nothing, God can do nothing with us. We need to recognize that the water of Life and the bread of Life is Jesus. His Holy Spirit must dwell within us for God to use us. We are nothing without Jesus in our life.

 

 

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J. Vernon McGee Commentary and Nelson’s Quick Reference Commentary.