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Elijah (2)
'Go up now, look toward the sea' 1 Kings 18:43
So here's our prophet, head between his knees, silencing out the world's noise, tuning his brainwaves to God FM. And yet there's no sign whatsoever of the rain God promised to end the drought. Six times a rain-spotter is sent on the hunt for drizzle, and yet six times the rain-spotter comes back dry as a bone.
Does Elijah hold his hands up and say, 'maybe I got my forecast a little confused with Manchester's weather'? No way. He keeps believing, shutting out all the signs and circumstances and holding tightly to God's promise.
By the seventh trip to the seaside, the rain-spotter reports seeing a cloud the size of a small fist. Well, a 15 centimetre cloud is hardly going to rain down the heavens. Yet Elijah takes this as a sign for action, basically telling people to prepare for the downpour.
We desperately need Elijah-sized faith. Faith which is not disheartened by what we hear or see, but chooses to wear God-goggles throughout the dry times. Notice that Elijah was getting the same old negative reports, 'Not a drop of rain, mate', 'not a cloud in the sky, the sun is shimmering off the sea, Grandad'. But Elijah wasn't influenced by the doom and gloom reports; and nor should we be. The newspapers tell us the world's gone to pot, that we live in a moral drought. But we know we're just getting ready for God's reign.
written by Bob Gass
'Go up now, look toward the sea' 1 Kings 18:43
So here's our prophet, head between his knees, silencing out the world's noise, tuning his brainwaves to God FM. And yet there's no sign whatsoever of the rain God promised to end the drought. Six times a rain-spotter is sent on the hunt for drizzle, and yet six times the rain-spotter comes back dry as a bone.
Does Elijah hold his hands up and say, 'maybe I got my forecast a little confused with Manchester's weather'? No way. He keeps believing, shutting out all the signs and circumstances and holding tightly to God's promise.
By the seventh trip to the seaside, the rain-spotter reports seeing a cloud the size of a small fist. Well, a 15 centimetre cloud is hardly going to rain down the heavens. Yet Elijah takes this as a sign for action, basically telling people to prepare for the downpour.
We desperately need Elijah-sized faith. Faith which is not disheartened by what we hear or see, but chooses to wear God-goggles throughout the dry times. Notice that Elijah was getting the same old negative reports, 'Not a drop of rain, mate', 'not a cloud in the sky, the sun is shimmering off the sea, Grandad'. But Elijah wasn't influenced by the doom and gloom reports; and nor should we be. The newspapers tell us the world's gone to pot, that we live in a moral drought. But we know we're just getting ready for God's reign.
written by Bob Gass
