Living Water Community Church

We explored the section where the woman who is providing food and shelter for Elijah during the famine suffers the loss of her son. This is a time of real trial for her. Yet in this trial we see God working to bring greater understanding of the God of Elijah and by this a greater hope in Him. Her immediate response to the death of her son is to connect it to her own sin. Perhaps she is even connecting it to her former life as an idol worshipper. One of the gods of the Sidonians was the god Mot. Mot was the god of death. Perhaps she had worshipped this god in the past. Elijah here responds to the woman’s distress and self-condemnation by asking her to give him her son. He carries the boy into his upper chamber and cries out to the Lord. He asks God to bring the child back to life. This is a great act of faith because as far as the Biblical record is concerned we have never seen anyone brought back to life prior to this in scripture. But Elijah asks for what must have seemed impossible. Yet God hears the prayer