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Commentary on "Elijah's and Elisha's Mantle"
Day 6: Thursday, May 5, 2011 - The Cloak
Overview
Since we have already examined the major points and issues related to the wearing of Elijah’s mantle, we will focus on this statement made in the quarterly lesson.
To quote the lesson:
Think about some powerful experience you had with the Lord. No question, at the time and right after, your faith was strong. But what happened as the experience itself started receding into the stream of time? Thus, why is it important that you, on a daily basis, do things that can help keep your faith strong?
Observations
Here is my own testimony concerning the one ‘powerful experience’ that I have experienced:
I was driving the company truck fully loaded with supplies. Because of things that hadn’t turned out well in my life, I was very despondent and wondering if the Lord was really doing anything in my life or that God was even real. It was late in the evening, dark, rainy and the traffic was wall-to-wall. Right as I was approaching the crest of the suspension bridge I was on the truck lost all power. The engine quit, the lights went out and the wipers stopped leaving me totally blind. In panic, all I could pray was; “Lord help”. When in this kind of immediate trouble one does not have time to ponder the theologically appropriate words of prayer.
The momentum of the truck took me up over the crest and the truck coasted off the bridge without hitting anything. As I stopped and reflected on the fact that I was still alive and nobody had been hurt, a jeep pulled up and the driver offered to tow me to a much safer location. I said yes and away we went. Now that I was off the freeway, safe in a well lighted area I began giving God much thanks but he wasn’t done just yet. A car pulled up beside me that had a sign on the door that proclaimed him being the ‘Auto Angel’. The driver offered me a cell phone and I was able to call for help. This was back in the days when very few people had such a device.
Nothing of this nature has happened to me before or since. While it was all very dramatic it was as if God spoke to me in his ‘still small voice’. I have never doubted God’s existence or his working in my life since for there was no human way to explain why I wasn’t harmed of even killed.
Summary
- We in obedience simply respond to God’s leading in these dramatic events of faith. They then can build us up and sustain us when in one of our ‘valleys of life’.
- Moments of faith such as this are totally the work of God and do not involve our own will, forethought or strength.
- If there is one thing you really desire to do, accept Jesus Christ as your Savior and stay daily immersed in the bible the word of God.
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