IS THERE ANYTHING TOO DIFFICULT FOR ME?


Image result for CLIP ART OF Elijah holding a youth      The rest of the story is found in Chapter 17:17 of 1 Kings.  Elijah is sent to live in the upper room of a poor widow and her son.  She is poorer than dirt, but she does have a shelter.  More than likely, the roof top of the house has an outside stair and a small room.  Please note she is probably not a Jehovah worshiper, but God has impressed her to let Elijah stay in her home. 
The son of the woman becomes very ill and he dies.  She carries her son to Elijah and she speaks, "What do I have to do with you, O man of God? You have come to me to bring my iniquity to remembrance, and to put my son to death!"  We still practice that unhealthy mentality today when something goes awry in our household or among our children....God must be punishing me! (Not that we don't deserve correction, but certainly not the removal of a child to "punish"!)  I can just imagine who whispered this lie to her heart!  The ancient ole liar who steals, kills, and destroys today! Elijah asks for the child to be given to him.  Elijah takes him up to his room and lays him on his bed.  He asks a question of God..."Hast Thou also brought calamity to this widow with whom I am staying, by causing her son to die?"  I am not sure why he has asked God, for immediately he stretches himself on the child three times and "called to the Lord, I pray Thee, let this child's life return to him."  God heard Elijah's request, life returns to the child, and he is taken to his mother.  Her response, "Now I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of the Lord in your mouth is truth."  Not sure, but I get the drift that could have led to her believing in Jehovah as her God.
 January 22, as I stood in the hospital room with all of our precious family as we are hovering over David and giving our love and good-byes, how much I would have loved for an Elijah to have been present and spoken life to David!  He only had about 6 or 8 machines going on him, and they could not sustain life...can you imagine that with a word, if God so chose, He could have said, "David, you are well!  Get up and give hugs to all your family."? God does not always choose the "happily ever after ending".  For HIS divine purpose and HIS alone, He chooses to take the loved one to be with HIM and we get to work out the pain and the absence.  In the process, we get to TRUST and believe that GOD'S plan and purposes are for David's best spiritual welfare and all of our spiritual welfare also.  Truly our faith will be maturing if we will allow it.  Elijah is a bold model of a man under obedience willing to trust God even in the impossible for man to bring about, but certainly not our LORD.  "Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying, "Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh; is anything too difficult for ME?"  Jeremiah 32:26-27  Thank You, Father, I know You will give the grace to trust and to walk out this life for YOUR purpose and YOUR glory.  Ever learning!  In process, still! #IHAVETHREESONS  
  

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