Many Korean Christians do "QT," a daily quiet time with an assigned Bible passage. I didn't pick today's. It just happened to be 1 Kings 19, exactly what I needed.
Elijah was done.
He had just stood against 450 prophets of Baal, and now he was running for his life, asking God to take it. "I alone am left."
God's answer:
“Yet I will leave seven thousand in Israel, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal." (1 Kings 19:18)
Elijah couldn't see them. They were there anyway.
And God was already working. Before Elijah knew it, Elisha was in a field behind twelve yoke of oxen. He burned his plow and followed.
I'm writing this as a Korean, to my American brothers and sisters. In Korea, pastors are being prosecuted over sermons. In America, many of you feel outnumbered, outvoted and tired.
It looks like we're alone. We're not.
You don't have to see the 7,000 to stand.
You just have to not bow.
Hold on to God's truth.
He has His people ready, in Korea and in America.
“Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man”
~Luke 21:36 KJV
Dream big
Expand with courage
Invest in others
Forgive
Accept
Delight in simple beauty
Create beauty
Share it
Live honorably
Be thankful
Pray unceasingly
With each moment one chooses a path, and sacrifice.
If I decide on one direction, I lose time/attention to another.
What is essential?
What is valuable?
What at the end of my days will culminate in a life well lived?