What God said to Elijah there at Horeb, he says to you today. Like Elijah you may be exhausted and discouraged by life. Maybe things haven’t worked out as you thought they would. Maybe you are not where you thought you would be. Maybe you feel that everything is against you. Perhaps like Elijah you are hiding in a ‘cave’. God said to Elijah: “Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.” Today God invites you to come to him. Hundreds of years before Elijah came to Horeb, Moses, in the same place, in an equal state of discouragement, had said to God: “If your presence does not go with us, do not send us up from here” (Exodus 33:15). And in response God had caused his glory to pass by Moses. God says to Elijah here in 1 Kings 19 that he is going to do for him what he did for Moses. God shows Elijah that he is not a distant God, for he was not in the fire or the storm. Rather God came and whispered to him. This is an expression of intimacy. God is closer to you than you think. He calls you out of your cave to present yourself to him. I encourage you to find a place where you can spend some extended and concentrated time alone with God. Wait on him, seek him and worship him. Tune your soul in to him so that you will hear his gentle whisper from within. This will change your life.
Plan when and where you can give some time to God.
Read 1 Kings 19:9-21
