![]() The journey is too great for any of us on our own. Men of God surely do! We all need spiritual food. Sometimes we all need a second touch from Heaven. He then went on the strength of that touch and meal for forty days and nights! The angel told the man of God to arise and eat again because the journey was going to be too great for him without it. An angel of the Lord touched him and told him to arise and eat. In other words, sometimes discouragement makes us feel like we’ve been broken, hindered, destroyed or crushed in our prime.Īs Elijah sat under the juniper tree discouraged, depressed and depleted, he fell asleep. Wilderness thinking can cause us to feel like those the lamenting and weeping prophet Jeremiah spoke of concerning experiencing “a spoiler at noonday” and “her sun is gone down while it was yet day” (Jeremiah 15:8-9). Wilderness thinking can do strange things to any of us. “Does anyone know what I’m going through?”.“This was not supposed to happen to me!”. ![]() “I thought I would be further down the road than this by now!”.“I’m done God!” Perhaps it sounded like this… Sitting under the juniper tree, the man of God had had enough. Our answers are not to be found in the secular world’s ways, but in the presence and Word of our great God! We are all subject to like passions as these. At times, even they are not immune from depression, fear and anxiety. Even Jesus, in His humanity, groaned, sighed, wept and also prayed “not my will, but your will be done.” Great men of God are still men. In short, it was a tree of rest, renewal and hope! We all need the Spirit of God to brush us and sweep us clean from time to time.Įven great men of God get discouraged. The broom tree was known for its qualities of shade, fragrant and lasting embers, and beautiful white blooms. When he couldn’t go on any further he sat down under a juniper tree and called it quits. He went into the wilderness a day’s journey. He was no longer running sacred, but running scared. “Elijah was a man subject to like passions as we are” (James 5:17).Īfter one of his greatest breakthroughs and victories, the man of God found himself full of fear. 8 And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.Įlijah was one of the greatest men of God and prophets of the Old Testament. And he did eat and drink, and laid him down again.ħ And the angel of the Lord came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat because the journey is too great for thee. 6 And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head. 5 And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat. 4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die and said, It is enough now, O Lord, take away my life for I am not better than my fathers.
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