A still small voice

<p> Shakings bring forth the eternal that can’t be shaken. Courage comes and the chapter closes and a new chapter awaits. What is next? Comfort and renewed strength now happen and the course is set for a new way forward. Elijah was a man that experienced the same human emotions as us. He felt the frailty of his limited humanity after the shakings of the battle with the prophets of Baal. Elijah has just brought a nation to repentance, defeated prophets of Baal and God sent rain. Even though he had won the battle he was left shaken in his soul and body. He has a panic attack because he hears that Ahab and Jezebel are after him so he runs away and wants to die – under a tree. He had shown courage and now he needed comfort. He is supernaturally fed by an angel before he journeys to the top of Mt. Sinai, a trek oåf forty days and nights where he hears God. He keeps hearing God but all God does is ask him the same question ‘What are you doing here Elijah?’ 1 Kings 19:7 Then the angel of the Lord came again and touched him and said, “Get up and eat some more, or the journey ahead will be too much for you.” So he got up and ate and drank, and the food gave him enough strength to travel forty days and forty nights to Mount Sinai, the mountain of God. There he came to a cave, where he spent the night. But the Lord said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?” Elijah replied, “I have zealously served the Lord God Almighty. But the people of Israel have broken their covenant with you, torn down your altars, and killed every one of your prophets. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me, too.” “Go out and stand before me on the mountain,” the Lord told him. And as Elijah stood there, the Lord passed by, and a mighty windstorm hit the mountain. It was such a terrible blast that the rocks were torn loose, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. And after the earthquake there was a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And afte