Elijah prophesied to King Ahab that it would not rain and
God told him to go to the Brook Cherith where He would send ravens to feed him.
(1 Kings 17:2-4)
After some time, the brook dried because of the drought and
God told Elijah to go to a widow in Zarephath and we can learn the following
lessons from their encounter:
Obey God
When the Cherith Brook dried up, God told Elijah, "Go to Zarephath and live there. I have
commanded a widow to provide for you."
Elijah responded obediently
for he arose and went to Zarephath. (1 Kings 17:8-10)
He did not
complain to God that he had moved from where he was when he prophesied about
the drought to King Ahab to go to the Brook Cherith and now he had to move again
since it had dried and go to Zarephath which was in Sidon.
Therefore obey God’s
instructions because He is the one Who knows what He has planned for your
future.
When Elijah arrived at the
Zarephath city gate, he found a widow gathering sticks and asked her to bring
him some water to drink.
The widow obediently stopped doing what she had
been doing and went to get him water. (1 Kings 17:10-11)
This widow's act of obedience
was itself a sacrifice because Elijah asked her for water which was a scarce
commodity at that time due to the drought. This drought had affected a
large area because Elijah later told her 'The bin of flour shall not be
used up and the jar of oil shall not run dry until the day the Lord sends rain
on the earth.'" (1 Kings 17:14) This shows us the earth was
affected by the drought and not just King Ahab's territory.
Therefore be obedient when
God asks you to do something even if it is uncomfortable for you to do so for To obey God is better than sacrifice and to heed Him is better than the
fat of rams. (1 Samuel 15:22)
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