I was doing my devotion in a Children’s Bible i bought a month ago (can’t help myself. i’m attracted to books that have colorful images. brings out the kid in me.) and got in the part where this Prophet named Elijah did things that intrigued me.
He made some widow’s jar of flour and oil limitless for a very long time. Then the widow’s son got ill and died but by the power of God through Elijah he had life!
He slayed about 450 “prophets” of an infamous cult led by the King and Queen of Israel, but got scared of the death threat he received. And ran(and walked) a very long way until he reached Mount Sinai (Elijah = The Flash). He encountered God Himself on that mountain, chose Elisha as a successor and was taken away TO HEAVEN BY A FLAMING CHARIOT!
He did all these amazing things! But one thing I couldn’t understand is that he got scared and flee’d even though he recently killed more than a hundred people! Then it hit me. He was human. Of course we still feel these emotions in us! We are human.
At that time the Lord was with Elijah, so why get scared if you have Him as your backup? Because Elijah is human. For a second he forgot who he was with, but immediately snapped out of that fear and continued being bad-ass for the Lord.
We are human beings, prone to stupid emotions like fear and being gloomy.
SNAP OUT OF IT dude! The enemy, satan would and will continue to throw things inside our minds like “You can’t do this!” “You’re not capable!” “You are insignificant!”
It’s up to US if we’ll listen and entertain his lies, but we must/should know better. but God knows what is BEST! He loves us, and wants us to have an amazing future with Him. That’s why He sent His only son Jesus to save us from our own ruin.
We are human beings. Human beings with God on our side! And if we hold on to the promises God has for us written in the Bible, You know yourselves that even the devil cannot stop us. :)
28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. 29 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. 30 And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.
31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 33Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34 Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written:
“For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Source:
biblegateway.com