What is your brook?

 After my devotions this morning on the supremacy of God and Elijah I opened up my computer to Psalm 46:10 on the screen saver. It seemed very appropriate.

In The Attributes of God it spoke of how the God of the 20th century doesn't even resemble the God of the Bible. On page 31 it states, "Here then is a sure resting place for the heart. Our lives are neither a product of blind fate nor a result of capricious chance, but every detail of them was ordained from all eternity, and is now ordered by the living and reigning God."

This was followed by the study on Elijah by Priscilla Shirer. I Kings 17:2-4 says:

2 Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah: 3 “Leave here, turn eastward and hide in the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan. 4 You will drink from the brook, and I have directed the ravens to supply you with food there.”

Now I highlighted brook or wadis in Hebrew. Brooks were notorious for drying up. Yet, Elijah didn't hesitate he trusted God! And like Elijah God is our ultimate source of provision! 

Humility

 As professing believers when did we stop seeing God's hand at work? When did we become skeptics?  How many of us have left the house late for an appointment only to travel a few miles down the road and see a horrific accident and said, "God was looking out for me"? How did we develop a "deist" view of God and believe he is just sitting up there twiddling His fingers? How many of us demand answers, but refuse to assume, whatever; our issue may be was filtered through God's hands? When did we stop looking to and for God?

1 Peter 5:6 says to "humble yourselves", but the whole world tells us that is ridiculous. Humble having or showing a modest or low estimate of one's own importance. I dare say I'd be hard pressed to find a Christian who is willing to humble themselves. As we've been told, "There ain't nobody buying that." Really!!! Philippians 2 says that was the example Christ gave us,  "he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross!" Shouldn't our lives reflect Him?

What if I truly humbled myself, acknowledged my sin, and waited on the mighty hand of God to exalt me? I want to see a move of God! Perhaps it needs to start with humbly thinking He is in control!