Any ministry any of us ever does is always being compared against what others do. We compare numbers constantly. It is what somewhere in our Western world we have determined is the gauge to call someone “successful” or “fruitful.”
In 1 Kings 17 we are introduced to Elijah. Now I get excited when I think of Elijah. I have over and over again read the stories of all the great things God did through him. What a successful, fruitful prophet he was. And again my mind imposes on it all the same standard for gauging his ministry (and mine). But recently God pointed out something I never saw.
In 1 Kings 17 we are introduced to Elijah. Now I get excited when I think of Elijah. I have over and over again read the stories of all the great things God did through him. What a successful, fruitful prophet he was. And again my mind imposes on it all the same standard for gauging his ministry (and mine). But recently God pointed out something I never saw.
