I
Kings 19:5-7, “As he lay and slept under the juniper, behold, then an angel
touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat.
And he looked, and behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and a
cruise of water at his head. And he did
eat and drink, and laid him down again.
And the angel of the LORD came again the second time, and touched him,
and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee.”
You may be in a situation that is
somewhat analogous to the one recorded here in I Kings. You may be depressed and feel that Jezebel
and Ahab are after you again! Perhaps
you are simply exhausted physically and emotionally. You may be so depressed—musicians get that
way at times—that you do not know how to get up and get going again.
How did Elijah get out of the pit
of despair? He did four things. He
listened to the angel of the LORD, he slept, he ate and he drank lots of water. Now those things seem too simple to work
don’t they? Elijah had just gone
through a very strenuous time, so he went a day’s journey away from the source
of his anxiety where he could really rest.
Think of it, an angel of the LORD
came to minister to him. All the angel
did was peck Elijah on the shoulder gently after he had taken a good nap, and
tell him to eat and drink. The angel did
not give him any other advice or do anything dramatic. God loved his servant enough to send an angel
to give Elijah some simple advice that Elijah would have figured out on his own
if he had not been so exhausted and depressed.
Chief musician, perhaps the reason
you are in trouble emotionally is because you need to get away from where you
minister (about a day’s journey) and sleep, eat, and drink water (not diet
pop). Now does this advice seem too
difficult to manage?
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