Sometimes It's Not About Us

Sometimes, It's Not About You - 1 Kings 17:7, 12

Looking back at verse 7 we see the words stay there.  Again, God gave no time frame, so Elijah obeyed the last thing God told him to do until God told him to do something else. Sometimes we think silence from God means that he has changed his mind, or that we are in the wrong place. Perhaps. However, we are just to stay and obey, like Elijah, so we are where God will use us when a need arises. Turns out, the widow and her son were starving to death. 

1 Kings 17: 12  “‘As surely as the Lord your God lives,’ she replied, ‘I don’t have any bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. I am gathering a few sticks to take home to make a meal for myself and my son, that we may eat it—and die.’”

Elijah went on to encourage the woman to display faith by making him a cake of bread first and then some for her son and herself. He shared God’s promise with her that, ‘The jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the Lord gives rain on the land.’”

And God was faithful. The woman continued to miraculously have flour and oil to make bread. 

Our obedience to God may actually not be about us at all. Sometimes, it is about what someone else needs who is in the place God sends us. 

Can you think of someone you have helped in the place God has you now?  Can you think of someone you should/could help in the place God has you now?