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Word for the Week

Dried Up!

Elijah was resting, fed and watered, where the Lord wanted him to be. But the brook dried up. I wonder how he responded? Did he feel rather let down because God had told him the brook would provide his water supply? Did he expect God to protect him from the drought, because he had been faithful even though no one else in Israel had? Why was God telling him to go to a foreign land, rather than back to Israel as a prophet? Did this rather solitary man shrink from having to live in someone else’s house – dependent, moreover, on a Gentile woman?

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