I had told someone to read 1 Kings chapter 19 where Elijah ran from Queen Jezebel when she threatened to kill him. I opened my Bible the other day to that very same passage and I read the chapter, seeing something I had not seen before. SELF-ISOLATION. When he heard that Queen J was out to get him, he ran with his servant, but LEFT the servant in Beersheba, and went ANOTHER DAYS JOURNEY on his own. Verse 9 says he then went another forty days and forty nights running and found a CAVE. Isolation again. God used some things to show him something----He used the strong wind, the earthquake and a fire to show Elijah that the still small voice is where you will hear God...not in the chaos and not in our fleshly stuff...BUT THE STILL SMALL VOICE. We cannot rely on our feelings or the situation or the circumstance to lead us, to make us FEEL things that are not from God-----but in that still small voice. And the self-isolation? God did use it and sometimes He separates us from others for a time, but dont stay there yourself and dont put yourself into a self-isolation unless you know that you know that you know that it is a God-thing. Cos Elijahs place was then taken over by Elisha. We rely too much on this flesh and out feelings and our own pre-concieved ideas. We THINK that one thing is going on when it is not that at all. We need to take time to hear the still small voice...of God--and not the clamoring of the flesh.
Posted on: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 01:12:45 +0000