Lord I Think I've Had Enough

Elijah had come to the point where he had to ask life’s most difficult question: How did I get where I am which is so far from where I am supposed to be?

Elijah’s experience tells us that no matter how saved you are you’re going to have some bad days. In case you didn’t know it brothers and sisters salvation is not isolation and our text proves that. For this is not some sinner reaping the consequences of their behavior. This is not some believer who strayed from the path of righteousness. This is God’s child! This is God’s servant suffering for being in God’s will.

It says to us that as a believer your faith will be tried. There are seasons in your life when you will question what you believe, when you will doubt your faith. And perhaps that’s why God moved it upon the writer to pen:

Does Jesus care when my heart is pained

Too deeply for mirth or song,

As the burdens press, and the cares distress

And the way grows weary and long?

Does Jesus care when my way is dark

With a nameless dread and fear?

As the daylight fades into deep night shades,

Does He care enough to be near?

Does Jesus care when I’ve tried and failed

To resist some temptation strong;

When for my deep grief there is no relief,

Though my tears flow all the night long?

Does Jesus care when I’ve said “goodbye”

To the dearest on earth to me,

And my sad heart aches till it nearly breaks,

Is it aught to Him? Does He see?

And the response comes:

Oh yes, He cares, I know He cares,

His heart is touched with my grief;

When the days are weary, the long nights dreary,

I know my Savior cares.

Listen, all of us are tested on different levels. Elijah went through an experience that many of the other prophets did not encounter and vice versa. And so it is not given to us to be unsympathetic to people because their reaction is not your reaction. Seasons of depression do not make a believer less than a Christian.

The bible says; We who are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak.

If you have strength in the area of my limitation don’t look down on me because of my inability, give me some encouragement, exhortation, build me up. Because you got a devil you can’t defeat, but I could. You got a test you can’t tolerate, but I could. So if you encourage me, if you help bring me back from despair then I can be around when your wilderness experience comes.

Notice this Elijah was in a city called Jezreel, but when he got ready to tell God to take his life, he told Him in a city called Beersheba. Now from Jezreel to Beersheba is over one hundred miles. Now I understand that Elijah was discouraged but if all he wanted to do was die he could of stayed where he was. If all he wanted was to die he could of stayed in Jezreel he didn’t have run over hundred miles to Beersheba just to die.

And that just leads me to believe that everybody talking about how bad it is aint ready to check out yet. Inspite of, dying is not on your agenda today.

You complain, you moan, you groan about how tired you are or how many aches and pains you have but you aint ready to die yet. Because as long as there’s life there’s hope. As long as there’s life there’s the possibility for things to get better.