Too Much for You

1 Kings 19:1-8

And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, also how he had executed all the prophets with the sword. 2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.” 3 And when he saw that, he arose and ran for his life, and went to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.

4 But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he prayed that he might die, and said, “It is enough! Now, LORD, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!”

5 Then as he lay and slept under a broom tree, suddenly an angel touched him, and said to him, “Arise and eat.” 6 Then he looked, and there by his head was a cake baked on coals, and a jar of water. So he ate and drank, and lay down again. 7 And the angel of the LORD came back the second time, and touched him, and said, “Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you.” 8 So he arose, and ate and drank; and he went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights as far as Horeb, the mountain of God.

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God sets this table of grace for us in the presence of our enemies.  Elijah had Jezebel to contend with.  We have plenty adversaries in the world, our flesh, and the devil to discourage us.  Elijah was discouraged to the point of asking God to take His life.  The journey is too much for you, the angel tells him.  God has designed our path such that we will need to rely on Him.  He teaches us plenty of lessons of working hard and self-discipline in life.  But He doesn’t want you learning to rely on those things to make it.  He gives us food and drink from Him, and we will die without it.  Jesus is the living bread come down from heaven to us.  He is living water – without Him you will die.  Come receive Jesus.  Let God feed you Jesus.  And go in the strength of that food further on your way, and to the mountain of God.

9/30/18