Year 4
When you go through difficult times of despair, anguish, loneliness, and fear, what do you do? Do you wander to and fro, looking for a solution and place of safety, as Elijah did, fearing what Queen Jezebel would do to him? Do you run to the wilderness to hide, rather than drawing close to God? Elijah was so afraid, and in such despair, that he even prayed for God to take his life. In 1 Kings 19:5 (NKJV), the angel of the Lord told Elijah, “Arise…”
God wants you to arise and take courage....