Elijah Restores Life

Responses to God's Faithfulness

God is Faithful

Live in the light of God (Isaiah 2:5) 

Blessed for Faithfulness

1 Kings 17:17-24 The Message)
17 Later on, the woman’s son became sick. The sickness took a turn for the worse—and then he stopped breathing.
18 The woman said to Elijah, “Why did you ever show up here in the first place—a holy man barging in, exposing my sins, and killing my son?”
19-20 Elijah said, “Hand me your son.”
He then took him from her bosom, carried him up to the loft where he was staying, and laid him on his bed. Then he prayed, “O God, my God, why have you brought this terrible thing on this widow who has opened her home to me? Why have you killed her son?”
21-23 Three times, he stretched himself out full-length on the boy, praying with all his might, “God, my God, put breath back into this boy’s body!” God listened to Elijah’s prayer and put breath back into his body—he was alive! Elijah picked the boy up, carried him downstairs from the loft, and gave him to his mother. “Here’s your son,” said Elijah, “alive!”
24 The woman said to Elijah, “I see it all now—you are a holy man. When you speak, God speaks—a true word!”

For Reflection
The prophet was sent to this widow because of her faith. She seems to believe God had visited a punishment on her, (a shared understanding of why people suffer.)  Elijah did not revive the son. But God did. God had confirmed the woman's spiritual need. Her faith in God was validated.

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