Title Towards Mount Carmel (1 Kings 17:17-24)
Contents After this (verse 17), at the house church of the widow of Zarephath, while enjoying the miraculous food that was not exhausted every day, the grace was being fully shared! When there is thanks and praise and emotion!
Verse 17 - The mother-in-law's son dies
Verse 18 - A grudge against the prophet (I thought it was a life that was supposed to die, but I thought that we would die together after eating the remaining food, but he saved me and made me eat miraculous food every day, so I suddenly developed an attachment to life) I didn't come here with the intention of blessing, but because you came to execute judgment to take my child.
This woman's heart, who had the death of her beloved child in her heart, was frozen, and she was rather sinking into the torment of the grave.
The dead are better off, but the survivors cannot help but mourn more with the living memories.
'Remind me of my sins' Do disasters only come because of sin? Repentance of sins is necessary, but John 9:2-3 C. S. Lewis-'If suffering is caused when it is very unnecessary, there is no God or a very bad God. .But if there is a good God, the sufferings of the world are necessary.'
Elijah Prophet / Asking for a son in verse 19-1) Not acting rudely / The murmuring that he uttered was quite disappointing.
It is said that it is my fault if it goes well, or someone else's fault if it goes well, and if it goes well, it's probably someone else's fault if you rebuke King Ahab with the same skill you used to rebuke King Ahab.
-Only need quiet silence They tell me to push hard and go out, and if I don't listen, I have to listen to what others have to say.)
The request means that he will bear the agonizing pain in the widow's chest.
When taken from the bosom and hugging the reality of tragedy, the amplitude of sadness felt and the density of shock are generally different.
Climbing up to the attic - It means going up to the attic where you usually roll around while playing with the child.
And there he cried out to the LORD in verse 20.--Commit to God and let go
'Our savior, who bears the burden of sin, what a good friend, worry, let the heavy burdens be on our lord.
Just as Elijah entrusted it to God, in fact, the widow of Zarephath also entrusted it to God.
I can recall once again that there must have been some kind of faith in giving the body of the son to Elijah's request for a son. In the image of Elijah asking for the last bread, he did not hold the body and handed it over to Elijah.
We must no longer hold on to our dead problems.
It is a matter that should be given and entrusted to God through deeper trust.
Another miracle happened when these hands of faith and trust were crossed.
Like the widow of Zarephath, when I hold a dead body, my heart rots.
It's not a collection I have to hold on to on my own.
Even if it is my child, it is necessary to entrust it to God anyway.
Contents of Intercession Verse 20/ Problem - The woman's faith is highly likely to collapse.
There is a high probability that you can think of God as simply a god of disaster.
Num 14:15,19
Verse 23: Barley, your son lives!
The only thing we can show is the power of new life.