[Discoveries] 10-02-07 Something was amiss -- 1 Kings 17:20

[Inspiration in Your Inbox]

/*Then [Elijah] cried out to the LORD, "O LORD my God, have You brought 
tragedy also upon this widow I am staying with, by causing her son to 
die?" -- 1 Kings 17:20*/

I want to focus in on one word in this verse: the word "also."

God's judgment had fallen upon a nation. For three successive years, 
famine left people starving and in desperate need. Dying of hunger or of 
disease was a commonplace fact of life. I'm sure the survivors looked at 
each other and asked, "Where will it end?" and "Are we all going to die?"

A widow's son gets sick and dies. That won't even make the six o'clock 
news. Nobody is going to care. Everybody has problems of their own.

But God cares. Deep down Elijah knows that God cares -- that something 
is amiss here -- that he shouldn't take this blow lying down.

I would like to suggest to you that there is an invisible line around 
the people of God. There is a boundary that is not to be crossed. Does 
that mean that we are all exempt from trouble, that sickness and death 
will never claim any of us? No. But it does mean that we are God's 
property and he watches over what is His.

There is a line that cannot be crossed drawn around you. I don't know 
exactly where that line is and neither do you. But God does. And that 
line has been drawn so that you and I won't become another "also," 
another statistic in a meaningless sea of tragedies. Jesus said, 
"Whoever lives and believes in Me will never die." (John 11:26) God's 
resilient eternal life has been planted in us, and all the forces of 
hell and all the tragedies of this world cannot snuff it out.

Be encouraged!
Dwight


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