When It Seems That God Is Not Doing Anything, What Are We To Do?

When It Seems That God Is Not Doing Anything, What Are We to Do?

1 Kings 19:1-18

This is a story about one of two men that did not die. Enoch walked with God and was taken so that he did not see death and Elijah was taken up to heaven in a whirlwind. In the preceding chapter, Elijah has a contest with the evil prophets of Jezebel, the wife of Ahab and one of the evilest women in the Bible.

In verses 1-4:

Jezebel was totally ticked off with regards to the death of her prophets since they had told her about all that she wanted to hear, forecasting her future power and greatness. Their occupation was to exalt the royal couple and assist with sustaining their realm. Jezebel was so furious in light of the fact that her malevolent prophets had been killed and her pride and authority had been harmed. The wealth that she had put toward resources into these prophets was currently lost.

Elijah, who had caused the passing’s of the prophets, was a steady persistent issue for Jezebel since he was continually foreseeing pessimism. Since she was unable to control his activities, she pledged to kill him. However long God's prophet was around, she was unable to do all the dreadful things that she wanted to do.

Elijah encountered the profundities of exhaustion and demoralization soon after his two incredible spiritual triumphs. The loss of the prophets of Baal and the addressed petition for rain had as of late happened. Regularly debilitation sets in after extraordinary spiritual encounters, particularly those requiring actual exertion or creating personal energy. To lead him out of the downturn, God initially let Elijah rest and eat. Then, at that point, God told him of his need to get back to his central goal, and that was to express God's Word in Israel. Elijah's fights were not finished. There was still work for him to do. When we get to the point to where we feel let down after an extraordinary spiritual encounter, we ought to recollect that God's motivation in our lives is not finished yet.

Elijah flees for his life. By this point, he is not heroic nor courageous. His attitude is called the “I quits, I give up.” How many of us have felt this way and cry out, “What is the use?” Why does Elijah feel this way? He expected a different reaction from Jezebel and Ahab. Maybe Elijah expected God to act in a certain way, his faith was based upon his knowledge of God, not on God Himself. We see the fear of Elijah, which is evident in the flight of Elijah, fear gripped his heart, and so he fled.

Elijah was overworked, overwrought, and over-worried. When we expect God to act in a certain way, but when he does not, our faith hits the bottom. . . “Oh woe is me.” A Christian is to be completely fearless, continually cheerful, and constantly in trouble. Next, we see Elijah become despondent, he wants to die, yet he runs away because he is afraid to die. (Job 3:20-21; Jeremiah 20:14)

We can become illogical when we turn from faith to fear. Self-pity sets in. Elijah says, “It is enough.” Basically, he is tired of the whole situation and maybe he is thinking “I have done my part, I cannot take anymore.” Self-pity is the result of having fallen from faith to self-trust and then self-trust results in self-pity.

• 1 Corinthians 10:13, There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

In verses 5-8:

At the point when Elijah escaped to Mount Horeb, he was getting back to the consecrated spot where God met Moses and gave his laws to humanity. Clearly God invigorated Elijah with exceptional abilities to travel this significant stretch, north of two hundred miles, without extra food. Like Moses before him and Jesus after him, Elijah abstained from food for 40 days and nights (Deuteronomy 9:9; Matthew 4:1-2). Hundreds of years later, Moses, Elijah, and Jesus would get together on a mountain ridge (Luke 9: 28-36).

God takes care of the physical as well as the spiritual. Elijah needed rest and resuscitation, then he was strengthened for the next part of his journey. (Exodus 24:18, Exodus 34:28) I believe that there is something about fasting and prayer that is important. If we are physically able to fast for a period of time and seek God in prayer, we should all try to accomplish this at some point of our lives. It can work in our favor not only for our spiritual wellness, but our physical as well.