Emphasis Preaching Journal

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.