"Now is not a Good Time to Die"

I Kings 17:8-13

  With everything that is going on in this world today, people loosing their jobs, businesses closing down, homes being lost to foreclosure and many more different tragedies that we see on a daily basis, it is no wonder I am seeing more and more people who have lost all hope.

 In the 17th chapter of I Kings the nation is in the midst of experiencing a drought. The Lord instructs Elijah to leave the brook and go to Zarephath there he would find a widow woman who would sustain him. When Elijah comes upon this woman he asks her for some water; as she leaves to get him the water he also ask for a morsel of bread. She informs him that all she has is a little meal and she had planned to make her and her son a little bread they were going to eat it and die. This woman had already given up hope and had resolved herself to a destiny of death. There are so many people at this time who have given up hope and resolved to accept a destiny that they do not have to accept. No matter how bleak life looks right now, no matter how dark your days may be do not give up hope because this is not a good time to die. God has something great in store for you. Look at what happened for this widow woman for trusting and following the instructions of the man of God. Elijah instructs the woman to make him a cake first. She did as she was instructed and gave at a time when she did not think she had anything to spare. She was blessed that her meal nor her oil would run out before God sent rain.