Join us as we read the scriptures and a daily devotion written by Don Crisp. We pray these messages will bless us all at this time.
Tues 4th August – 1 Kings 19:11-13:
Categories: Don’s Daily Devotions
Tues 4th August – Read 1 Kings 19:11-13:
V11: God brings him to the entrance of the cave, and sends mighty physical manifestations of power, a wind so strong it devastates the hillside, an earthquake, yet ” the Lord was not in them”. What does this mean? Obviously it was God’s power that produced them, but they were not the revelation of God that Elijah needs at this moment – they are not what the Lord has to say to him to deal with his condition.
V12: Again, fire sweeps across the hillside, but again, this is not what God is saying to Elijah. He has seen the fire of God fall from heaven on Carmel, now he needs something else. It comes in ” a low whisper” – as the old AV so evocatively put it ” a still small voice”. Surely, what God is saying is ” Elijah, you’ve seen mighty demonstrations of my power, but it is not and will not always be like that. I’m with you even when “nothing seems to be happening”. Listen for what I’m saying to you in the quietness. Realise that I’m always with you! How often we need to realise this afresh – perhaps very much at this present moment.
V13: Elijah clearly recognises God’s voice. Why then the repetition of the question? Because Elijah still needs to take the lesson to heart, as we so often do.