The Scripture Reading for this Sunday is 1 Kings 17:1-16
The Sermon title is God’s Provision
Early Thoughts: There was a famine. Nobody had enough. How dare this man ask for some of the last little bit of food the widow had to feed herself and her son?
This passage is a pair of stories about God providing in the midst of true scarcity. As I read them I am reminded backwards to manna and quail in the desert and forwards to the feeding of the multitude in the Gospels. I am also reminded of the Jesus who tells his followers to stop worrying and to live with (through? on?) faith and trust.
Do we trust in God's abundance?
In a world where there are always people telling us that we lack something, that there is not enough to go around, do we trust God enough to use up the little bit that we have left?
The widow would have been justified in telling Elijah to get lost. That is the reaction we would expect isn't it? But for some reason (we are not told why) she listens to Elijah who tells her to let go of her fear and is blessed as a result.
IT makes no sense. But sometimes the thing to do when we are sure we are running out is to share it. You never know what might happen.
--Gord
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