Just some early morning thoughts from me to you…
“So Jezebel sent this message to Elijah: ‘May the gods strike me and even kill me if by this time tomorrow I have not killed you just as you killed them.’
Elijah was afraid and fled for his life…He sat down under a solitary broom tree and prayed that he might die. ‘I have had enough, Lord,’ he said. ‘Take my life, for I am no better than my ancestors who have already died.’…he got up and ate and drank, and the food gave him enough strength to travel forty days and forty nights to Mount Sinai, the mountain of God.
There he came to a cave, where he spent the night. But the Lord said to him, ‘What are you doing here, Elijah?’ Elijah replied, ‘I have zealously served the Lord God Almighty. But the people of Israel have broken their covenant with you, torn down your altars, and killed every one of your prophets. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me, too.’
I Kings 19: 2-4, 8-10 (NLT)“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.”
John 3: 16-17 (NKJV)“Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of him. Even so. Amen.”
Revelation 1:7 (ESV)
Over thirty years ago Northern Ireland Christian singer, songwriter and worship leader, Robin Mark, was inspired while watching a television program which was reviewing the moments of that year, to write the song “Days of Elijah.”
The program recapped a year which included the Rwandan war tragedies of 1994 and the horrific genocide of over one million lives, while the world just watched. It also was the beginning of the cease-fire in Ireland, and of so many other things going on in the world that Mark wondered where God was.
Did He even care.
Mark claims to have been guided to an answer by the Holy Spirit to reclaim his belief that God was in fact there, that He cared and assured him that all will be well.
But he was reminded that in times like those God was, and is, always looking for people of integrity, people seeking to be aligned with Him, follow Him and be all He needed them to be in those difficult days.
He was led to refer to them as Days of Elijah, recalling the troubles and condemnation the prophet Elijah went through as he stood time and time again for God in the face of evil.
And as Robin Mark shared in his song, they were days of great trial, of famine, and darkness, and sword.
Days we can connect with today, personally and around the world.
And the call is the same on us these days, as it was then, and has been throughout history.
Days of Elijah once again. Days to heed the call of God on our lives, to step forward and stand with God.
Days that don’t need politicians, sports figures, or would-be leaders with self-help movements for us individually, as a nation and world, even though some may be well-meaning.
Days of Elijah where we turn to, and stand with, the only answer—God.
And God gave us the chance to draw closer to Him, by sending His Son, Jesus Christ, His mark of ultimate love for us.
Today, in these days we have left, it is time to remember and accept that love, once again, to find the strength and integrity to stand with God here in this journey on earth, and to assure our place in Eternity with Him.
Days of Elijah. Days of great difficulty, of suffering, uncertainty, darkness, and conflict.
But also, days of hope—the hope of Christ to share with others for their assurance of their place in Eternity with Him.
So that when Christ returns, and we “behold, He is coming with the clouds,” to claim those who have accepted Him—those who have confessed Him with their mouth and believed in their hearts that God raised Him from the dead—will all be assured of Eternity with Him.
These also are Days of Elijah—difficult days, days of suffering, and uncertainty, darkness, and conflict—but these days are always with us.
And in these days, and those of over thirty years ago and beyond, and those which are yet to come—Christ is always the only answer.
What will we do with Him?
Stand with Him, always.
Behold He comes.
In His Name–Scott
You will be blessed watching the video and listening to the song “Days of Elijah” Robin Mark wrote; a reminder for us all, of the hope we always have with God’s presence within us to face difficult days, the “Days of Elijah.”
