DAILY READINGS: Gen. 22; Job 25-26; Matt. 12:1-21
Elij ah was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. James 5:17
Elij ah was hiding from Ahab. But, what was he doing? In many ways—nothing! Yet Elij ah was just as much in the will of God during that period of seeming idleness as when he confronted the mighty Ahab on Mt. Carmel. Certainly his physical inactivity did not hinder his prayer life and all the while he was the object of God’s tender love and care. Are some of us enduring forced inactivity of some type? What lessons in faith, humility, obedience and guidance can we learn during “this season” for God’s glory and our comfort? —V. Markle
Are you weary, are you heavy-hearted? Tell it to Jesus, tell it to Jesus.
Are you grieving over joys departed? Tell it to Jesus alone. —E. S. Lorenz