[Discoveries] 10-24-08 The narrow way -- 1 Kings 17:15

[Inspiration in Your Inbox]

/*She went away and did as Elijah had told her. -- 1 Kings 17:15*/

Faith comes in many different colors and styles. But one of the most 
powerful forms of faith is doing what God tells you to do, even when it 
doesn't make any sense.

It didn't make sense for this widow to give most of her last meal to a 
traveling prophet, but she did it anyway. It didn't make sense for the 
widow in Jesus' day to give to the temple everything she had to live on. 
But she did it anyway.

Jesus said that the gate to eternal life is narrow. The Christian life 
will sometimes squeeze us, and force us to choose a painful path we 
would rather avoid. But God knows that we cannot haul our own 
self-sufficiency through those narrow doors. We give up. We give away. 
And then we enter into God's abundance.

Be encouraged!
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