Elijah - 1 Kings 17-19 - Come Follow Me with Sam

 Welcome! There are 2 quotes I would like to highlight


And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that aAhab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel?

Above is the last code of the great mystery of who a prophet is.


and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.

This is a middling code of the mystery of Godliness. It is a strange God we worship who is not our divine butler, as all the idols are, but is that He is, such that we come to serve Him, not the other way around. For us, living in the way God asks us to id better than any other reward we could be offered. This can be very hard sometimes, even for he who held the sealing keys. Can we say that we too are better than our fathers in this regard? Do we deserve some better fate them them, or some special treatment for whatever reason? Or under Christ, whatever may, come is a good struggle its own reward? Is there anything that can separate us form the redemption of Christ? "Who shall separate us from the love of Chrsit? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neigher death, nor life, nor angels , nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 8

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