What if!

What If?

"Access Bank to cut salaries may sack workers"

"One in five SA businesses laying off staff due to the impact of Covid-19"

What happens if you get fired from a job you prayed and fasted to get? What if you get sacked from a job that you are already building your retirement plans around?

There was a drought in Israel that had culminated in a famine and God instructed Elijah where to go to be fed.

"Get away...and hide by the Brook of Cherith, which flows into the Jordan. And it will be that you shall drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there" 1Kg.17:3-4.

But something puzzling happened! "And it happened after a while that the brook dried up..." Vs 7. How could the brook dry up when it was God that led the prophet there?! Does that mean that God can open a door that ends up being shut? Absolutely yes!

But when that happens, it means He has provided an alternative! "Then the word of the LORD came to him, saying, "Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. See, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you" Vs 9.

Question: Why do people miss out on divinely provided alternative(s)?

Answer: They are too caught up in 'mourning' the closed door that they couldn't 'see' the alternate door that God is opening!

Credit: Sola Sorinolu