This is the Breathe Meditation for the week.  Written and produced to help you know, love, and enjoy God, to follow Him with your heart, and to love like Jesus. For the next six weeks, we will look at what the Bible says about how we can weather headwinds and hardship.  Jesus will teach us how we too can be overcomers!

One of our spiritual ancestors, Elijah, found himself in deep trouble and had to run for his life.

He ran himself into exhaustion until he came to a cave where he stayed for 40 days.

Sometimes we need to Sit & Listen

Sit & listen isn’t what Elijah had been doing and yet when he became ready to really hear from God, it was sitting not running that was the hot ticket.  Listen to what the Bible says…

The Lord said, “Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.”

Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind.

After the wind, there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake.

After the earthquake came a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire.

And after the fire came a gentle whisper.

When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave. 1 Kings 19:11-13 TLB

Sit & Listen

It’s so counter to how we want to respond.  If you’re like me or Elijah we want to run from it, avoid it, or pretend it’s not there.

Sometimes we need to listen to the wind rather than fix the problem.

Perhaps, after sitting with it for an hour, a day, a season - holding the situation in a sacred space of calm sitting with God we can begin to whisper, “God, what would You have me do (if anything)?”

Prayer

In many ways, I’m a runner Lord - from my problems, consequences, from You and the last thing I’m comfortable doing is sitting and listening to You!  Yet, it seems my way rarely really fixes things.  Help me slow down, sit, and listen.

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