When the widow’s son fell sick, Elijah prayed until God healed him. It took the healing of her son before the widow recognized God’s power. Why didn’t the widow develop faith in God during the time God fed her and her son with only a handful of flour and a few drops of oil? Jesus had the same problem. He lived a perfect life in front of an entire town that rejected Him at the beginning of His ministry. They doubted Jesus even after He healed some of the people in his hometown. After that, Jesus went to heal His son, the Levites in the synagogues. Together these two chapters show how the Levites became the foreigners. That’s why Jesus pointed out, ” he was sent instead to a foreigner.” It didn’t matter how far the priests separated themselves from God, Jesus made it His top priority to call them back. One of the main lessons we need to learn from these two chapters and Jesus. We can’t argue, Elijah was sent to a widow the world would ignore and the Jews most certainly rejected. It was normal for Jews to claim widows suffering was a judgment from God. How much more a foreigner? God used people the Jews rejected most to show how He could have viewed them. Instead of taking advantage of their fallen state and weakness, God sent His Son to plead with them. God was just as willing to save the Levites as Elijah was determined to save the widow’s son. How many times did Jesus reach out to them? How many times did they reject Him? If they would have turned to Jesus and accepted the miracles He performed, they would have seen He was more than a man of God. adventbiblestudy.wordpress/2013/09/28/1-kings-178-16-elijah-and-the-widow/
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