Elijah & Elisha: Daring Dudes in Dark Days
“What are you doing here, *your name here* ?” (GOD)
1 Kings 19:1-18
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. (Gal. 6:9)
Signs you’ve become weary in doing good (maybe beyond weary to wearisome?)...
1. You have become afraid that God has met his match, won’t help, or has moved on. (19:1-3)
2. You begin to utter weird, radical, extreme, ultimatum prayers. (19:4-7)
3. You make a pilgrimage to a place of worship because you have a beef with God. (19:8-9)
4. You make wild exaggerations on how bad things are and how uniquely zealous you are. (19:10,14)
Because...
You are guilty of type-casting God! (Ex. 16:19; Ps. 18:8; Heb. 12:18-21)
- Used to a way of experiencing, encountering God or expecting Him to act
- Idolizing a way, a setting, a method, a straight-line outcome.
Critical takeaways...
- God is free and always at work
- Fruit will happen, but in His way and His time!
- God’s mission is never endangered or hostage to any agency
Be careful that, in your so-called zeal for God, you don’t begin to actually miss out seeing and encountering the very reality of God you so long to experience.
“WHY ARE YOU HERE, ______________?”
“WHAT idol is IN THE WAY OF HEARING GOD whisper RIGHT WHERE YOU ARE AND IN THE VERY CIRCUMSTANCE HE HAS ALLOWED YOU TO BE?” If you can’t hear the whisper, you won’t be able to hear the next set of instructions. If you have already decided how things should be, you aren’t ready to hear how things ARE TO BE.
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