That's CRAZY!!!

1 Kings 17:1-6 Elijah Fed by Ravens


Now Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in the next few years except at my word." Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah: "Leave here, turn eastward and hide in the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan. You will drink from the brook, and I have ordered the ravens to feed you there." So he did what the LORD had told him. He went to the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan, and stayed there. The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook.


This is CRAZY!!! Did you read that???!??! Elijah was told he would be fed by ravens… birds flying… dropping food for him… meat and bread!!!! Not – ravens dying in the sky and dropping to the ground and Elijah cooked them for food – but the ravens fed him – as the Lord God commanded!!! That is crazy!


But is it? Or is that God? Doing things in a crazy manner (in our minds) that is just more proof of his faithfulness and existence?


I am ministered to by this… that my God will provide for me. If you go on to read in 1 Kings you read about how Elijah was sent to a nearby town and that God would provide more food and water for him. A woman – who was literally on her last tablespoon of flour and oil – was asked by Elijah to bring him bread and water. She told him what she had left and after that her and her family would surely die – because they had nothing left. God spoke through Elijah and told the woman to go – make the bread and bring it to him first and then she and her family would be fed for days. And you know what… she did! And God proved himself faithful because the flour nor the oil ran out and the family ate for days!!!


This is CRAZY!!!


It’s CRAZY by this worlds standard… this world as we know it… would read this or if they lived this it would be looked at as crazy! But our God is crafty and sovereign… He knows how to catch our attention and for God - there is no such thing as “that’s CRAZY”.


God calls us to live according to His (living) word… and it's totally different from the standard of this world. In order for us to do so – "we need to get outside the realm of what is comfortable to us and focus instead on radical obedience of God" (Tim Challies). I read this blog today – actually it was a book review… it says: “God doesn’t call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn’t come through.” ~ Tim Challies (http://www.challies.com/book-reviews)


Interesting? Strange? CRAZY? Assuredly – but only by this worlds standards… by God’s standards… it’s expected and normal.

I've heard this song a couple of times on the radio and it is a fitting end to this post... It's called Crazy Love by Hawk Nelson. They wrote it after reading the book "Crazy Love"... this world thinks I'm ridiculous... but God thinks I'm beautiful!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jFlW_j4G1A

To Him be all the Glory!