from Streams......
Some time later the brook dried up.(1 Kings 17:7)
The education of our
faith is incomplete if we have yet to learn that God’s providence works through
loss, that there is a ministry to us through failure and the fading of things,
and that He gives the gift of emptiness. It is, in fact, the material
insecurities of life that cause our lives to be spiritually
established.
The dwindling brook at the Kerith Ravine, where Elijah sat
deep in thought, is a true picture of each of our lives. “Some time later the
brook dried up”—this is the history of our yesterdays, and a prophecy of our
tomorrows.
One way or the other, we must all learn the difference between
trusting in the gift and trusting in the Giver. The gift may last for a season,
but the Giver is the only eternal love.
The Kerith Ravine was a difficult
problem for Elijah until he arrived at Zarephath, and suddenly everything became
as clear as daylight to him. God’s hard instructions are never His last words to
us, for the woe, the waste, and the tears of life belong to its interlude, not
its finale.
If the Lord had led Elijah directly to Zarephath, he would
have missed something that helped to make him a wiser prophet and a better
man—living by faith at Kerith. And whenever our earthly stream or any other
outer resource has dried up, it has been allowed so we may learn that our hope
and help are in God, who made heaven and earth.
F. B. Meyer
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