Everyday Devotions by an Ordinary Christian

Everyday Devotions by an Ordinary Christian

Thursday, 9 April 2015

The Irony of Elijah's Fear

"Then he was afraid, and he arose and ran for his life and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there" 1Kings 19:3

I was reading the story of Elijah yesterday and this morning, and I learned something about him: he was scared of dying by the hands of man. He ran away and hid when Jezebel threatened to take his life for killing Baal's prophets. If there was a way he wanted to die, it would be by God's hand because everyone dies eventually. He was so scared of Jezebel's threat that he begged God to kill him early. I find it ironic how the guy who was so deathly afraid of death was one of the very few people in all of history who never died.  I guess it was God's great grace.

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