The Key to Your Success
15 So she went away and did according to the word of Elijah; and she and he and her household ate for many days. _1 Kings 17:15
Picture with me that first miracle meal.
The first meal was not actually the miracle meal. Being an experienced homemaker, when the widow prepared that first meal for Elijah she knew she had enough. She had to implement portion control but what did it matter, they were going to starve anyway. So she threw caution to the wind and made a calculated bet and included Elijah in that last meal.
But picture that second meal. That was the miracle meal. It wasn’t supposed to happen. She knew it. Her son knew it. But there they sat at the dinner table. She at one end of the table, her son on right side, and sitting at the head of the table (where her husband always sat) was this strange man of God freshly come to town from the wilderness.
He needed a haircut…badly! A bath would have helped too, but with a prolonged drought, there was probably not much chance of that. But there they sat, miraculously with food in front of them.
And then it was time to eat again, and again, and again…for many days. And each time, there was Elijah sitting at the table.
Matter of fact, the reason they were eating was because Elijah was sitting at the table.
God’s plan had been from the beginning, had been “I will provide for you so that you can provide for Elijah.”
This is an important life principle for all: Your survival and success is tied to others. Or to state it another way, help others get what they need and you will get what you need in the process.
Knowingly or unknowingly, this is the secret to all true success and the moment a person, a company, a church, a nation gets their eye off serving those under their care and makes it about themselves they begin a downward spiral that leads to emptiness and eventual dissolution.
The ONE THING for today: The key to your success is always tied to someone else’s success.
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