Preparedness

I belong to an online Christian writer’s group and a few people are worried that the provisions they stocked up with (food, medicines, toiletries, etc.) won’t last as long as they need them to. My thoughts turned to the Widow at Zarephath who had only enough supplies to make one last meal for her and her son before they died. Most of us, to some degree, have prepared for COVID-19 and Elijah’s words to the widow encourages me today. He said, “For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘The jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the LORD gives rain on the land’” (1 Kings 17:7-16).