“Now it happened after these things that the son of the woman who owned the house became sick. And his sickness was so serious that there was no breath left in him. So she said to Elijah, “What have I to do with you, O man of God? Have you come to me to bring my sin to remembrance, and to kill my son?”” I Kings 17:17-18 NKJV
a. After these things that the son of the woman who owned the house became sick: We can imagine the happy days of provision in the household of the widow. Their needs were supplied by a continuing miracle of God. Yet those happy days were eventually covered by a dark shadow – the sickness and death of the widow’s son.
i. The death of the son was a double blow to the widow. Not only did she suffer as any mother who loses a child, but she also suffered as one who lost her only hope for the future. The expectation was that her son would grow and provide for her in her old age. Now that expectation was shattered.
b. Have you come to me to bring my sin to remembrance, and to kill my son: At the death of her son, the widow indirectly blamed Elijah. She more directly blamed herself and her unnamed sin. Whatever her sin was, the guilty memory of it was always close to her. (Guzik)
Sickness and Death
It’s a fact that one out of one person dies. But what if that person dies before having a full life and it’s cut short like this son?
I am reminded of a verse that the Lord put on my heart before waking out the door as a volunteer chaplain to the Arizona State Veterans Home. When I made my rounds and visited a certain veteran, the Lord put on my heart that this verse was for his family that was visiting him. He passed the following morning.
Good people pass away; the godly often die before their time. But no one seems to care or wonder why. No one seems to understand that God is protecting them from the evil to come. Isaiah 57:1 NLT
God is sovereign and He loves you. He and only He knows the number of your days.
Are you prepared if He calls you home?
Blessings
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