My love for you consumes me

SUMMARY: Elijah had just experienced two great spiritual victories but still fled in terror and abandoned his duty. God asked him twice, "What are you doing here?" Similarly, we can also find ourselves in the wrong place despite feeling close to God. We need to trust in His direction and be willing to be relocated for His glory. Our love for Him should consume us and guide us to obedience. When we feel weak or fearful, God will be by our side and speak to us in a soft whisper. We should strive to be in the exact place where His glory is the only thing that counts.

Twice the Lord asked Elijah what are you doing here? and the question, despite the beautiful and faithful answer, had a bit of a scolding from God. Elijah was not in the right place where the Lord wanted him to be. It often happens to ourselves: we respond to the Lord with heartfelt prayers, with sublime and altruistic attitudes, we believe we have felt his voice and his presence in the great and miraculous events that He allows us to see and not we realize that God, in these times of excessive sensationalism, manifests himself much more often in a soft hiss, in a sweet whisper, in a placid breeze that brings his Spirit to tell us here I am! What do you need?

Many times we are where we should not be and we believe that we are there from God. But thank God that he has made us rise again through Jesus Christ. By his power and our faith in his direction, we can be relocated to the place where we can be of use and be used for his glory.