1 Kings 19:5-8 ESV
5 And he lay down and slept under a broom tree. And behold, an angel touched him and said to him, “Arise and eat.” 6 And he looked, and behold, there was at his head a cake baked on hot stones and a jar of water. And he ate and drank and lay down again. 7 And the angel of the Lord came again a second time and touched him and said, “Arise and eat, for the journey is too great for you.” 8 And he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mount of God.

THE ANGEL’S TOUCH.
Being dead tired and exhausted, Elijah had fallen asleep under the broom tree. And suddenly, he was awaken by a touch of the angel from the Lord, “Arise and eat.” Just beside his head was a ‘cake baked on hot stones and a jar of water’ provided. It was a breakfast in bed. He ate and drank and sleep again. This time it was a sleep with full stomach.

Elijah wished to die but the angel let him live. Suddenly, he appeared to feed him. I am thankful that God answers our prayers the other way around at times. In desperation, we are prompted to pray. And, our prayers mostly are just ventilations of our frustrations and disappointments. Thankfully, God, our Father, does show His gentleness for He knows that we are made of dust. Indeed, “a bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not quench, until he brings justice to victory.” [Matt 12:42]

Elijah had excluded God from his equation but God did not. He ran away but God outran him. For God’s plan was not yet through in his life. He is leading him back to his feet and run for God, not for himself. How? He fed and let him sleep and awaken him to eat once more. For, Elijah has a great journey to Mt. Horeb [Sinai], the mount of God.

In times of our discouragements, God wants us to go where He is. He wants us to “lift up our eyes to the hills, from where does our help come.”[Psa 121:8]. Let us resolve to say with the psalmist, “Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.”[Psa 42:11]

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