Something From...Alief Baptist Church of Katy
by Donald G. Burgs, Jr. Senior Pastor
1 Kings17:4, 9 . . . I
have commanded the ravens
. . . a widow woman
there.
We must be where God
desires. Elijah spoke of
himself as always
standing before the Lord
God of Israel. He deemed
himself as much a
courtier in the royal
palace as Gabriel (Luke
1:19). And he could as
distinctly stand before
God when hiding beside
Cherith, or sheltering
in the widow’s house at
Zarephath, as when he
stood erect on Carmel,
or listened to the voice
of God at Horeb.
Whenever you go, and
whatever ministry you are
called to undertake,
glory in this, that you
never go to any greater
distance from God.
If we are where God want
us to be, He will see to
the supply of our
need. It is as easy for
Him to feed us by the
ravens as by the widow
woman. As long as God
says, Stay here, or
there, be sure that He is
pledged to provide for
you. Though you resemble
a lonely sentinel in
some distant post of
missionary service, God
will see to you. The
ravens are not less
amenable to his command
than of old; and out of
the stores of widow women
He is as able to supply
your need as He did
Elijah’s, at Zarephath.
How often God teaches
best in seclusion and
solitude! It is by
the murmuring brooks of
nature that we have our
deepest lessons. It
is in the homes of the
poor that we are fitted
for our greatest tasks.
It is beside couches
where children suffer and
die, that we receive
those preparations of the
heart which avail us when
the bugle note
summons us to some
difficult post.
God leads through
death to life. It was
needful that the child
should die, that sin
might be remembered and
dealt with; but through
Death’s portal the trio
entered a richer, fuller
life. Fear not that
gateway!
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