1 Kings 19:5 Then he lay down and slept under the broom tree. But as he was sleeping, an angel touched him and told him, “Get up and eat!”
Sometimes the solution to our problem is very ordinary. Elijah was a man at the end of his rope. He was marked for death by Jezebel the pagan queen. He was trying to do everything right, and yet his efforts seemed pointless. The Israelites had abandoned their faith and he watched as everything he’d worked for crumbled. Feeling beleaguered and defeated, he finally laid down under a tree and prayed for God to just take his life. Elijah was completely overwhelmed by his circumstances. The Lord sent an angel to Elijah, not to give him a vision or proclaim some scriptural wisdom, but to say to Elijah simply “Get up and eat!” It was something so basic and ordinary that one would almost never see God in it. And yet, he is.
Chambers says:
When the Spirit of God comes He does not give us visions, He tells us to do the most ordinary things conceivable…whenever God comes, the inspiration is to do the most natural simple things, the things we would never have imagined God was in, and as we do them we find He is there.
All too often we think that God can only be in the big things – the supernatural things and that he can’t possibly turn up in the every day. And yet, that is exactly where he is. If we find ourselves overwhelmed by worry, stress or the pressures of everyday existence, don’t be so sure that the only place God can show Himself is in some supernatural vision or miracle. Rather, simply “get up and eat” – do the every-day things and look for God to reveal Himself there. He will.
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