Thanks, Carol!  That ministered to me!  It is an encouragement.

Love,
Helen


At 06:06 PM 1/3/04 +0000, you wrote:
>This morning, this is what I received.  Notice the bit about a line drawn
>around us!  God really spoke to me!
>
>--
>Carol
>
>
>Then [Elijah] cried out to the LORD, "O LORD my God, have You brought
>tragedy also upon this widow I am staying with, by causing her son to die?"
>
>I want to focus in on one word in this verse: the word "also."
>God's judgment had fallen upon a nation.  For three successive years,
>famine left people starving and in desperate need.  Dying of hunger or of
>disease was a commonplace fact of life.  I'm sure the survivors looked at
>each other and asked, "Where will it end?" and "Are we all going to die?"
>A widow's son gets sick and dies.  That won't even make the six o'clock
>news.  Nobody is going to care.  Everybody has problems of their own.
>But God cares.  Deep down Elijah knows that God cares -- that something is
>amiss here -- that he shouldn't take this blow lying down.
>I would like to suggest to you that there is an invisible line around the
>people of God.  There is a boundary that is not to be crossed.  Does that
>mean that we are all exempt from trouble, that sickness and death will
>never claim any of us?  No.  But it does mean that we are God's property
>and he watches over what is His.
>There is a line that cannot be crossed drawn around you.  I don't know
>exactly where that line is and neither do you.  But God does.  And that
>line has been drawn so that you and I won't become another "also," another
>statistic in a meaningless sea of tragedies.  Jesus said, "Whoever lives
>and believes in Me will never die." (John 11:26)  God's resiliant eternal
>life has been planted in us, and all the forces of hell and all the
>tragedies of this world cannot snuff it out.
>
>Be encouraged!
>Dwight
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