Devotion:
Read 1 Kings 19:5-9a.
Elijah is physically, spiritually, and emotionally exhausted. He is running for his life and wants God to stop it. In this time of great need, God provides refreshment. God first meets Elijah’s physical needs: food, water, and sleep. Then God strengthens Elijah for a forty-day journey and an encounter that meets his spiritual needs.
God is not finished with Elijah. The journey directed by God takes him to the mountain of Horeb for an encounter with God. Elijah is able to cry out to God from the brokenness of his condition. Elijah is distraught and even a bit disoriented as he complains that he is the only prophet left.
God listens to it all and then shows up with a gentle whisper. Elijah listened closely as God gave him a new assignment that included the anointing of new kings and a successor to himself as prophet. Then God revealed that there were 7,000 faithful believers among the people of Israel.
On our journey of faith, we too need refreshment. We need God to provide for us physically, spiritually, and emotionally. The wonder of the walk of grace is that God does just that, again and again.
Personal Worship Option:
God, when we are not able to take another step, may we be assured that you are already providing for us. Refresh us, we pray. Amen.
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