What Are You Doing, Where Are You Going?

“What are you doing here?” (1 Kings 19:9, NIV 1984).

My Musings – Just like my previous musing, it’s only a fragment of a verse in a larger context. Fearful of the threats of Jezebel, Elijah had left where God had put him and “ran for his life,” (1 Kings 19:1, NIV 1984). Sometimes, more than we’d care to admit, we find ourselves in places, positions, situations, or circumstances that God did not put us. Due to fear, poor choices, lack of faith, or perhaps open rebellion. We might ask ourselves, “what should we do?” God had this answer for Elijah. “Go back the way you came.” (1 Kings 19:15, NIV 1984).

My Advice – Sometimes, like the prodigal son, we “[come] to [our] senses…and go back to [the] father,” (Luke 15:17, 18, NIV 1984). Sometimes, like Jonah, the Father intervenes to “[send] a great ‘wind’…a ‘violent storm’…[provide] a ‘great fish,’ (Jonah 1:4,17, NIV 1984), to redirect us to where He wanted to put us all along.

Better to stay where God put us than to have to ““go back the way [we] came.” Better to keep our senses than have to ““[come] to [our] senses.” Better to go where God directs us than needing to be redirected.

Regardless, we have a Father who sees us when we are “still a long way off…filled with compassion,” (Luke 15:20, NIV 1984).