“Now it happened after these things that the son of the woman who owned the house became sick. And his sickness was so serious that there was no breath left in him.” 1 Kings 17:17 (NKJV)
You’d think that after providing food for Elijah for the rest of the drought that the household would be free from trouble. However, even before rain came again, the son of the woman became sick to death.
Elijah carried the limp body of the boy to his room and earnestly prayed for the boy’s breath of life to be returned to him. He laid across the boy’s body three times praying before God answered his prayer and the boy’s breath returned.
Elijah took the boy down to his mother, revived. Then the mother said she believed that Elijah was a man of God and that what he spoke was truth.
Had she not believed when the oil and flour never ran out? Didn’t she have enough proof of God working through Elijah? Evidently the God who knows our innermost thoughts believed that she needed one more dramatic evidence to solidify her trust in God. And it worked!
How much proof do I need that God’s Word is true? All the stories in the Bible are there as documentation of God’s truth. Yet because God knows our hearts and all about us, sometimes he allows things to happen that we don’t understand. We might not ever understand some things until eternity. Yet each of our experiences are there to help build trust in our Creator and Redeemer.
Listen to the Believer’s Gospel as they sing “God’s Word Is True.”
Published on MyBibleRoom.com 2/16/25, 5:00 pm