Last night I went to bed with a splitting headache. Those are very rare for me so my husband and I prayed just before I fell asleep around midnight. This morning at 3:00, my husband woke up to the banging of our cat trying to open the bathroom cabinet. A few minuntes later, he was standing in the middle of the bedroom and I woke up to a rumbling sound like thunder and my bed shaking like the MRI I just had. After the initial rumblings, there were a couple wavy sensations and it took a while to get back to sleep. But when I finally got out of bed to start my day today, this passage from I Kings 19:11-13 came to mind and I started singing Robin Mark's song Days of Elijah.
“And behold, the Lord was passing by! And a great and strong wind was rending the mountains and breaking in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind. And after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire a sound of a gentle blowing. When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood in the entrance of the cave. And behold, a voice came to him and said, ‘What are you doing here, Elijah?’”
So what are YOU doing here? Elijah was at the end of his ministry as a prophet thinking all his work was a lost cause and that he was all alone with no one to stand by him. He went to hide in a cave. Where are you and what are you doing there? Are you hiding from God? Taking His name in vain by living like He means nothing to you? Do you call on God as a first resort in crisis, or a last resort? Do you praise Him always, not just after surviving a natural disaster? Are you hanging onto hurts or are you seeking His healing? Are you keeping your lamp lit and ready, or have you let your lamp burn out? What are you doing here?
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