Tag Archives: hang in there

Reading:
1 Kings 19:11-18

No, I don’t think God was quite so casual in speaking to His prophet — but maybe that way of putting it brought you here.

Anyway, God’s question for Elijah, as recorded in the second half of verse 13, echoed in my heart:

“And, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah?”

Yeah, Mark — Whatcha here fer?

In that Elijah’s case, I take the question and the circumstances to suggest that Mr. Prophet should have been elsewhere.

Maybe in my case, the question is merely intended to provoke a review of what I’m up to here and for what purposes.

Because if the question for me really means I should be elsewhere, that’s a problem. I don’t know where else I’m supposed to be.

(Though I think I would like to be serving in Mexico again. Shhhh!)

[The Scriptures say in 1 Kings 19:10 -- I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts]
from 1 Kings 19:10

Reading:
Deuteronomy 31:1-8

Moses had been on a mission for God for some forty years.

Now the time had come for Joshua to assume that Moses’ task of leading the children of Israel.

To put it another way, Joshua was being commissioned for a new mission.

Jehova, ever so sensitive and gracious toward the needs of His flock, had Moses deliver a message to Joshua:

“And the LORD, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed” (8).

Lord, I need that message, too!

[The Scriptures say in Deuteronomy 31:3 -- The LORD thy God, he will go over before thee]
from Deuteronomy 31:3