![]() ![]() It was but an incident used by God to take the prophet on his journey from Cherith-the place of the failing brook to the home at Zarephath, there to discover the meal that never failed, the oil that did not waste, an d the God that raised the dead. So too in the prophet's day, the brook that dried up became the occasion of unfolding greater glories of Jehovah, and richer blessings for Elijah. If Lazarus was taken, Jesus the Son of God remained, taking occasion by the failure of earthly streams to reveal a fountain of love that never fails, and a source of power that has no limit. But their trial turned to the "glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby." That which brings glory to the Son carries blessing to the saints. Is not the story of the brook that dried up told in a different setting when, at a later day, sickness and death invaded the quiet home life at Bethany? Two sisters bereft of their only brother came face to face with the brook that dried up. ![]()
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