Interestingly, God's remedy for Elijah's depression was not a refresher course in theology but food and sleep.. Before God spoke to him at all, Elijah was fed twice and given a good chance to sleep. Only then, and very gently, did God confront him with his error. This is always God's way. Having made us as human beings, He respects our humanness and treats us with integrity. That is, He treats us true to the truth of who we are. It is human beings and not God who have made spirituality impractical. .Os Guinness
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The physical world is the creation of God, but it is also governed by objective, physical laws which are not the product of God’s will. Through His creation, God has given us a physical world in which we can experience, albeit with limitations, all the joys and sorrows that human beings experience. This creation is a gift from God to us and if we misuse it, God is not going to come down from heaven and make it right. He will not do anything other than show us that He is powerful enough to bring about our downfall.
If we turn our backs on this gift of creation as a result of our own folly, as the story of Elijah shows us, then eventually we will be brought low by our own sins. We may even die as a result of those sins.
Source: God In The Dark
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