Have you ever felt
that God asks too much of you? That
you've gone as far as you can for God but you just don't have the strength to
continue? Well don't think you are the
only one. Elijah, one of God's great
prophets felt the same way at one time.
1 Kings 19:1-4(NKJV)
1And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had
done, also how he had executed all the prophets with the sword.
2Then Jezebel sent a messenger to
Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make your life as the
life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.”
3And when he saw that, he arose and ran for his life, and went to
Beersheba, which belongs to Judah,
and left his servant there.
4But he himself went a day’s journey into
the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he prayed that he might die,
and said, “It is enough! Now, Lord, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!”
That is a tough spot
to be in. Elijah was tired and
discouraged. He had reached the end of
his rope. Now look how God handled it.
1 Kings 19:5-8(NKJV)
5Then as he lay and slept under a broom
tree, suddenly an £angel touched him, and said to
him, “Arise and eat.”
6Then he looked, and there by his
head was a cake baked on coals, and
a jar of water. So he ate and drank, and lay down again.
7And the £angel of the Lord came back the second time, and touched him, and
said, “Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you.”
8So he arose, and ate and drank; and he
went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights as far as Horeb,
the mountain of God.
God sent an angel to
feed and nourish Elijah to prepare him for the next part of his journey. Notice what the angel says. “Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you.”
The journey was too
great for Elijah to handle on his own but rest assured that if God has asked
you to do something then He will supply all you need to accomplish the task as
long as you depend on God's strength instead of your own!
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