If the angels see us on our face, crying for rain, they will know that
some day they will have to meet us and take us home in the chariot of
fire. If they see that we are those who eat and drink when they should
pray, they will know that our possessions, like Ahab's chariot, will
become a hearse, and that we are riding to hell in that which we have
chosen for comfort.
XXXVII. "THE WIDOW WOMAN WAS THERE."
I KINGS xvii. 10.
Of course she was. All God's trains meet at the junction. They don't
have to wait for one another. Elijah had left Cherith because the brook
had dried up, and his first request shewed that he was in need of water.
The poor widow seems to have been relieved that water was all the prophet
asked, but he called to her to fetch a bit of bread as well. This broke
her down. "Ah, Master, we have not so much as a cake. I have only a
handful of meal, and I had come out to gather some sticks that I might
bake a little cake for me and the lad, and then we shall have to die of
hunger!"
"Never fear, God has sent me, and with His servant there shall come a
blessing.