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| “Make me thereof a little cake first” (1 Kings 17:13). |
| These words were spoken by the prophet Elijah to a widow lady in the city of Zarephath. There was a severe famine in the land of Israel, and she was gathering a few sticks to make a fire to bake one last cake for herself and her son with the handful of flour and the last bit of oil she had left. When she obeyed God’s servant, we read, “The barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the Lord, which He spake by Elijah” (verse 16). |
| However, there is a moral lesson to be learned from this portion of Scripture. If we put the Lord first in our life, we can count on Him to take care of every other detail. In the Old Testament the Israelite was told, “The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the Lord thy God” (Exodus 23:19). The Lord said in the New Testament, “But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you” (Matthew 6:33). |
| This is the first day of a new year, let’s start by putting Christ first in our lives today and each day that follows. |
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