A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; OLD TESTAMENT STORIES

                               ONLY  LITTLE FLOUR AND OIL PART XIII

"It has been quite an emotional day for me, Elijah, the prophet of God, today.... I have been staying with a widow and her son at Zarephath of Sidon.... We have had a very peaceful existence together.... But then her son became suddenly unwell... I did not worry too much about him.... After all, God promised to take care of us throughout the famine.... And He has..... I just kept on praying to the Lord that he would make the boy well again.... I expected Him to do so.... But then today the boy took a turn for the worst.... And then he died....His mother, the widow, is, of course, full of grief... Who will take care of her now?....Life is hard for any woman without a husband.... And now she is without her son as well... In her grief the widow said some things that I know are not true.... She seemed to imply that I am responsible for the death of her son.... But I know that is impossible for I am only a human being.".... Please read the typed out attachment when the prophet Elijah takes the dead son from the widow at Zarephath of Sidon....

   
        ATTACHMENT A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; OLD TESTAMENT STORIES

                          ONLY A LITTLE FLOUR AND OIL PART XIII

Hoe does the prophet Elijah respond to the woman's words? Does he get upset with her and walks out of her house telling her he will have nothing to do with her anymore for she is an ungrateful woman who have completely forgotten what he has done for her? Thankfully that is not what happens as you can read in I Kings 17:19

"Give me you son," Elijah replied. He took him from her arms and carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him out on the bed.

The prophet takes the boy from the widow's arms and takes his body to his room. It is time for an encounter with his God for Elijah knows that he can do nothing without his God as you can read in John 15:15b where Jesus says"...... Apart from Me you can do nothing."