🌿BREATHE TRUTH🌿
Then the Lord said to Elijah, “Go and live in the village of Zarephath, near the city of Sidon. I have instructed a widow there to feed you.” —1 Kings 17:8
But Elijah said to her, “ Don’t be afraid! Go ahead and do just what you said, but make a little bread for me first. Then use what’s left to prepare a meal for you and your son. For this us what the Lord, the God of Israel says: “There will always be flour and oil left in your containers until the time when the Lord sends rain and the crops grow again!” —1 Kings 17:13-14
🌿LIVE THE REAL TRUTH🌿
At the beach, the multitude of sand is endless. Each granule looks just like the other. Nothing special is inherent in the sand themselves. It is the one who shapes the sand that is significant, and what He shapes it into. God creates and recreates the pieces of our lives into pieces of glory that come together at the cross to reflect a picture of His Son, Jesus Christ, his death and resurrection.
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Loose all to gain all.
For this us what the Lord, the God of Israel says: “There will always be flour and oil left in your containers until the time when the Lord sends rain and the crops grow again!”
When Elijah asks the widow to take of her last resources to make him a meal, he is asking her to chance the likelihood that there won’t be enough left for her son and herself. Two part of Elijah’s message to her: Give the little that you have left and God will give to you enough all you will need later.
When we die to the self, we rise again with Christ. Out of death comes new life. As Jesus dies on the cross to birth new life, so it is with us. The widow gives up her limited resources to God at the altar. Every day thereafter, she returns to the same altar where her flour and oil is never consumed, and where both her spiritual and physical needs are consummated. Our God of promise keeps His promise of provision. We release what we clasp onto so tightly and grasp the greater riches of Christ Jesus, for whose sake we loose all to gain all.
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Starve your rights to save your soul.
At the altar, multiple options are served to dine from. Starve your rights to save your soul. Save your rights and starve your soul.
Had the widow not let go of the last of her resources to God, she and her son would have eaten their final meal together. But in renouncing her rights, she reinvigorated her soul and is feasting on an everlasting banquet that never ends. Bread alone is not sustenance enough, but the bread of God baked by the sacrificial lamb of God is. When we abandon our rights, we make ourselves available for God to move and mold great out of small, and glory out of grief.
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