[Discoveries] 10-23-08 Asking the impossible -- 1 Kings 17:9

[Inspiration in Your Inbox]

/*Go at once to Zarephath of Sidon and stay there. I have commanded a 
widow in that place to supply you with food. -- 1 Kings 17:9*/

Isn't something backwards here? A Gentile widow is providing for an 
Israelite man. Shouldn't it be the other way around?

And why would God command a widow to supply someone's needs? Widows, at 
least in Bible times, were often destitute ... they had nothing. In a 
couple of verses we find out that this particular widow was just that 
... destitute. She, herself, was on the brink of starvation.

God was asking ... no, He was commanding this widow to do the impossible.

Why would God do such a thing? Isn't that terribly unfair?

We will probably never understand the Christian life until we begin to 
see that God's commands are just that ... impossible. He hasn't asked 
His people to do the easy, or the difficult, the challenging or that 
which may be done with great human effort. He wants us to do the 
impossible.

Why?

Because only when we set out to do the impossible do we discover where 
our resources end and God's begin. The Christian life was meant to be a 
display -- not of our own achievements -- but instead of God's 
inexhaustible resources.

Be encouraged!
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