| These words, spoken by the Lord to His servant Elijah, after Elijah had predicted the three-and-a-half years’ drought to wicked king Ahab, were for the prophet’s own protection. “Hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.” But how timely to all of God’s children are the words “hide thyself.” The old self-life in us wants to be seen and ministered to always. Therefore God’s Word tells us to “let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.” “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me, and gave Himself for me.” So “if ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth,” for “ye have put off the old man with his deeds; and have put on the new man.” Therefore “hide thyself,” “and let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us.” |
