As believing parents, it is often when we are most grieved or most concerned for our children, that God would teach us more of His goodness; that He would desire to minister to us, and show us more of His good ways. God is always good to His people. God is the One who has given our children to us. And having given them to us, we should understand that He will, at times, test our faith in relation to our continuing to have them with us, and keeping them with us. The reason that He does so is to solidify and build our faith in Him, through the truth of the word of God which comes to us from the Lord’s minister. Instead of mistrusting the Lord’s minister, He would have us to see that the word of the Lord in his mouth is the truth, and we should indeed receive it. Tonight I would like to draw a number of precious lessons of truth from 3 phrases which the widow and Elijah uttered, concerning the death and resurrection of this young man. 1st of all – The phrase, “What have I to do with you, O man of God?” 2nd – The phrase, “Give me your son”. And 3rd – The phrase, “See, your son lives!” I hope to show you that Elijah, in this situation is a type of our Lord Jesus Christ; that there is much that we can learn about Christ from Elijah’s words and actions here. And I believe that each of us will be helped by these truths when, or if, we come into a situation where we lose someone who is very close to us. |
