Who Would You Rather Be?

Elijah or Elisha? (I was asked this)

On Sunday, I was sitting and reading 1 Kings, then this memory launched itself at me, and I couldn’t shake it.

See, I was asked a few months ago who I’d rather be, Elijah or Elisha, and it had nothing to do with what each one accomplished for God. It had to do with Elijah's death.

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I immediately answered Elijah.

When asked why, I said something along the lines of he’s done with this world. He is no longer in this world dealing with all the seasons we all go through.

See, I said this as I was going through my own rough season. I was struggling with a lot of physical pain. But nagging in the back of my head was this feeling that I answered wrong, that I needed to rethink my response, and why I responded that way.

And you betcha I rethought my response, and it was an intense moment of realization, faith, and repentance.

Later that night, I messaged back on the group chat. “I choose Elisha!”

Do you want to know why?

Because he was alive to do God’s work, and from that moment on something changed in me. I didn’t realize it until Sunday morning, it was the starting point God needed me to see, hear, feel, and realize before He placed me on the path to run a women’s group from my home.

There's no pain, season, stress or exhaustion that will stop me from loving the Lord, I wake up every morning because I’m meant to. It is not my time yet, and until it is, I will share His love.

© Jane Isley