Elijah, after giving word to King Ahab from God, returns near home to be ministered to by God while in hiding. Then God sends him to Sidon, where Ahab’s pagan father-in-law is king. 
The widow ministers to Elijah even in her hardship. Then Elijah ministers to her by praying for her son, who had died and now lives by the power of God.
The widow ministers to Elijah even in her hardship. Then Elijah ministers to her by praying for her son, who had died and now lives by the power of God.
Right when we thought we couldn’t stand another story of an evil king, God brings us a story of redemption, the saving from death of an unnamed widow. The redemption is most obvious in the progression of her titles. First she is widow, identified by her circumstances only. Then she is woman, her own identity. Then she is mistress of the house, identified by what she is to those in her household. Elijah returns to calling her widow in his prayer for her son, seeking God to save her from another title tied to her circumstance. Then she’s finally called a mother, which is her title of legacy. God has drawn her to Himself through circumstance then provision then prayer, then she proclaims the Word of God to be truth. I get bogged down by one title or the other in my own life sometimes. But every stage I’m in, God is drawing me to Himself.
No matter what title I carry on any given day, let me always be telling the ones in my circle Your word of truth.
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