[Reflection] 1 Kings 18:43
“…Seven times he said, ‘Go look again!’”
“Hon, I can’t find it!” my husband’s plaintive voice calls from the bedroom, where he has become disoriented after one of my marathon cleaning sessions.
“Go look again, hon, it’s there…” I repeat patiently, while rolling my eyes to heaven and muttering a quick prayer to do with “…opening eyes…”
Before long, I hear him call out “Thanks!”, and smile to myself.
Walking in faith can be like that. One minute, your world is ordered just the way you want it, the next minute, something comes along and turns it topsy-turvy. Suddenly you’re asking God, “What happened? Where do I go to find You? Lord, I don’t see anything!”
It would be so easy for God to reveal the answers with all the drama of a sudden storm. But that’s not the way it goes. I’m sure Elijah’s servant learned a whole lot about patience and perseverance those seven times he was sent back to the top of Carmel to check the horizon.
In the same way, God sends me back along the familiar path, over and over, until I finally see the light. Along the way, I learn new things about His plan for my life; gifts of revelation I might not have received without God’s nudging to give a familiar road a yet another look through renewed vision.
