How God shows truth when you’re in a desert
starvation. Everything is dried up. There is no food anywhere.
The widow of Zarephath is picking up sticks to make her last fire, for her last meal, for herself and her son. Elijah approaches her and asks her to make him some bread. He promises that God will bless her if she obeys and feed him first.
She believes. And her oil and flour don’t run out. She keeps Elijah alive, and God keeps her and her son alive. They survive the famine.
But then the widow’s son dies.
Look how Elijah prays and how the woman responds.
“O Lord my God, have you brought tragedy also upon this widow I am staying with, by causing her son to die?…O Lord my God, let this boy’s life return to him!”
And the boy begins to breathe again.
Then she says, “Now I know that you are a man of God and that the word of the Lord is truth.”
Oh, Lord, God,
Reveal your power and your spirit today.
Reveal that you are the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
You can sustain us through any struggle.
You can overpower any aggressor, any fear, any pain, any grief.
Show yourself mighty in my life
that people will see it and say,
“Now I know that the word of the Lord is truth.”
Give me the courage to wait on your timing and your will
and help me be obedient in faith.
I love you and I trust you.
In Jesus’ name,
Amen.
God shows truth by showing up and inviting you into his miracles. Do you have the faith to believe him?
