Have you ever been ready to give? Have you been so low you just wanted it all to end? Have you tossed your hands in the air and declared it all over? Did your declaration end it? Or did it continue? Were you plans for ending everything changed inexplicably?
There are times when we want to give up. We are down in the dumps with nothing going our way. We’re ready to throw in the towel. We simply want the whole thing to go away. Yet, it doesn’t. Then, suddenly, something changes, and everything is much better.
Elijah had that kind of experience. Yes, that Elijah. A great prophet of God. He had a time so tough that he ran away, hid in an out of the way place, and asked God to simply take his life. He had been threatened to be cut into pieces. In fact, King Ahab had stated he would hunt Elijah down and he would not live another day. Elijah, like most of us, did not want to face that kind of pain.
As Elijah lay down under a tree, he asked God to take his life. He knew it would not be as painful as King Ahab had planned for him. He knew God could simply cause him to stop breathing. He was ready to give up being a prophet of God. He was ready to stop doing what God had called him to do. Yet, God was not done with him. We will see what God has in store for Elijah tomorrow.
I pray we all look to God when we face tough times. I pray we ask God to help us through those situations. I pray each one of us trust that God has our good in mind as he walks with us through tough times. Look to God. Ask God for help. Trust God in all situations.
1 Kings 19:4 But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a solitary broom tree. He asked that he might die, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my ancestors.”
Marty Pressey 