When the brook dries up

And it happened after a while that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land. – 1 Kings 17v7

It is going to be difficult to say much about Elijah without ‘plagiarising’ my son Matt. He is preaching a tremendous series on Elijah, and I am sure that some of that will come across so acknowledgements to him in advance.

Israel was experiencing God’s promised drought, but God provided to His servant. God sent Elijah to the brook Cherith where he has water to drink and sent ravens to feed Elijah.

That was fine. Things were not great, but it was okay. Elijah had water to drink and food to eat.

We can all understand those ‘just okay’ times. That is, in fact, what most of life is’

But then the brook dried up.

We know what those ‘brook dries up’ moments are like. That phone call, that email, that letter in the post, those words from the doctor, the police at the door in the middle of the night – these are the moments in our lives when the brook dries up.

What do we do when the brook dries up? What do we do when there just is no more?

We are going to learn something from Elijah’s response. For now suffice it to say this – Elijah did not quit when the brook dried up. He just kept on going.

In those dry brook moments our challenge is to be steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord. We need to not be weary in well doing.

Sometimes the brook dries up. What do we do then?