Category: YOU ARE PARDONABLE

“1 And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, also how he had executed all the prophets with the sword.

2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this  time.” 

3 And when he saw  that, he arose and ran for his  life, and went to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.

4 But he himself went a day’s journey into the  wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he prayed that he might die, and said, “It is enough!  Now, LORD, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!” 

5 Then as he lay and slept under a broom tree, suddenly an angel touched him, and said to him, “Arise and eat.”

6 Then he looked, and there by his head was a cake baked on coals, and a jar of water. So he ate and drank, and lay down again.

7 And the angel of the  LORD came back the second time, and touched him, and said, “Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you.”

8 So he arose, and ate and drank; and he went in the strength of that food forty days and forty  nights as far as Horeb, the mountain of God.

9 And there he went into a cave, and spent the night in that place; and behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and He said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

I wish I could see the woman called Jezebel. The woman who caused a man of fire to run for days because of her threat. I wondered how Elijah rated himself compare to the woman. Elijah was so much afraid of a queen and not the king himself and God was displease with him. God was so angry that He replied Elijah, I still have seven thousand prophet who haven’t bow to Baal nor kiss it, 1 Kings 19:18.

God have trusted us to some level that we are not suppose to let Him down. Elijah’s fear for Jezebel was a slap on God, that made God gave him the order to install three people for his replacement which Elijah did wholeheartedly, 1 Kings 19:15-17. Who could have thought that, same Elijah will be taken away by a whirlwind? God has put behind Him what Elijah did why? Because he is a man who served Him truthfully. He was a man who stand and represented God well. So God have a good record about him.

Your service and good representation of God will cause him to forgive and forget your wrongs. Though you might not escape the punishment but you will fulfill His purpose for your life. Are you representing God well? Hope you are standing for Him? He loves you and He is ready to look away from your sins. Stand for Him.