What Are We To Do When God Does Nothing?

In the preceding chapter, Elijah has a contest with evil prophets. In this chapter, Elijah flees for his life.

In verses 1-4:

Jezebel was maddened with regards to the passing of her prophets since they had told her what she wanted to hear, forecasting her future glory and power. Their occupation was to immortalize the king and queen and assist with preserving their realm. Jezebel was likewise furious on the grounds that her allies had been dispensed with and her pride and authority harmed. The finances that she had used to put resources into these prophets was presently lost.

Elijah, who caused the prophets death, was a steady persistent issue for Jezebel since he was continually prophesying about anguish and destruction. Since she was unable to control his activities, she pledged to kill him. However long God's prophet was around, she was unable to do all the shrewdness that she wanted to do.

So, Elijah flees for his life. He is not heroic nor courageous. He runs and hides under a tree and requests to die. His attitude had become what is called the I quits, I give up. How many of us have felt this way and have cried out, what is the use? Why does Elijah feel this way? It could be that he expected a different reaction from Jezebel and Ahab. It might be that Elijah expected God to act in a certain way. His faith was based upon his knowledge of God, not on God Himself.

We see the fear of Elijah, which is evident in the flight of Elijah. Fear had gripped his heart, so he fled. Elijah had become overworked, overwrought, and over-worried. We expect God to act a certain way, but when he does not like we think he should, our faith hits the bottom. . . oh woe is me. A Christian is to be completely fearless, continually cheerful, and he is constantly in trouble. Next, we see Elijah become despondent and he wants to die. Yet he runs away because he is afraid to die. (Job 3:20-21; Jeremiah 20:14)

We can become illogical when we turn from faith to fear. Self-pity sets in. Elijah says, ‘it is enough,’ basically he is tired of the whole situation. It could be that he is thinking “I have done my part; I cannot take anymore.” Self-pity is the result of having fallen from faith to self-trust and self-trust results in self-pity. (1 Corinthians 10:13)

In verses 5-8:

At the point when Elijah escaped to Mount Horeb, he was getting back to the holy place where God met Moses and gave his laws to humankind. Clearly, God invigorated Elijah with extraordinary strength to travel this significant stretch, north of two hundred miles, without extra food. Like Moses before him and Jesus after him, Elijah abstained for 40 days and 40 nights (Deuteronomy 9:9; Matthew 4:1-2). Hundreds of years after the fact, Moses, Elijah, and Jesus would get together on the top of a mountain (Luke 9:28-36).

God takes care of the physical as well as the spiritual. Elijah needed rest and resuscitation, then afterwards, he was strengthened and readied for the next part of his journey. There is something about fasting and prayer that is important. It helps us to focus on God and not ourselves.

In verses 9-10:

Elijah believed that he was the only individual who was still consistent with God. He had seen the priesthood and the royal court become bad. In the wake of encountering extraordinary triumph at Mount Carmel, he needed to run for his life. Forlorn and debilitated, he failed to remember that others had stayed unwavering amidst the country's fiendishness. At the point when we are enticed to feel that we are the final stragglers dedicated to an undertaking, we are not to quit working and feel frustrated about ourselves. Self-pity will weaken all that we are doing that is good. Be guaranteed that regardless of whether we know what their identity is, others are steadfastly complying with God and satisfying their obligations.

So, we see Elijah sitting in a cave and then the Lord wants to know what he is doing there. Elijah proceeds to tell the Lord what all the Israelites have or have not done. He thought that he was the only one left that was serving God (Romans 11:2). There are times that we can get like that. We begin to question if we are in the place that we should be in. We question if we are in the way of performing our duty. Are we where we should be and are we doing what we should be doing?

In verses 11-16:

Elijah is sent to the mountain. Normally when we arere up on the mountain, things appear to be better or go much smoother. For some reason, the wind blew, an earthquake came, and there was a fire. Elijah does not seem to be afraid. But then a still small voice comes to him and asks what he is doing there. Elijah realized that the still little voice was God's. He understood that God does not uncover himself just in incredible, inexplicable ways.