If you were hungry and...
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If you were hungry and needed food, would you call the wealthiest or the poorest person
in town? I don't know how many well-to-do people there were in Sidon's suburbs during
Elijah's time, but there was at least one hungry widow. She was close to starving and
intended to fix her, and her son's, last meal. Famine had depleted the area's food supply.
The widow was gathering wood to heat one last meal expecting that she and her son
would shortly die.
Then came the hungry prophet Elijah asking for bread. Sounds just like a preacher, doesn't it, to ask for dinner? Not only that, the parson wanted to be fed first.
Elijah made her a promise. He guaranteed her that if she fixed a meal for him and then prepared one for her and her son, her oil and flour supply would never run out. She believed him and enjoyed the benefit of God's inexhaustible supply. When we give God the first and best of what we have, he always takes care of us, too.
Then came the hungry prophet Elijah asking for bread. Sounds just like a preacher, doesn't it, to ask for dinner? Not only that, the parson wanted to be fed first.
Elijah made her a promise. He guaranteed her that if she fixed a meal for him and then prepared one for her and her son, her oil and flour supply would never run out. She believed him and enjoyed the benefit of God's inexhaustible supply. When we give God the first and best of what we have, he always takes care of us, too.
