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📖 AATHAVAN
Bible Meditation – No. 1886
🔆 Tuesday,
April 7, 2026
"Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months. Then he prayed again, and the sky poured rain and the earth produced its fruit." (James 5:17, 18)
When reading about men like Elijah and Elisha in the Bible, many people think they were fundamentally different from others. However, that is not the case. In today’s meditation verse, James says that they were just like us in appearance, actions, and human weaknesses. Yes, even though he was "a man with a nature like ours," he was the one who prayed earnestly for the rain to stop and shut up the heavens.
God uses the humble and ordinary people of this world for His works and purposes. Men of God are not inherently different from others. On the contrary, they are human beings who experience the same sufferings and trials as everyone else.
Elijah was the one who brought fire down from heaven to demonstrate to the prophets of Baal that the Lord is the true God. He was the one who executed 450 prophets of Baal. Yet, we see that this same Elijah fled in fear of Ahab and Jezebel, showing us that he possessed the same fear for his life that any other human would. When he was without food, he felt hunger just like any ordinary person, and God fed him through ravens.
Furthermore, God also fed Elijah through an angel. When he fled from Jezebel, he was deeply discouraged and desired to die: "But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree; and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, 'It is enough; now, O Lord, take my life, for I am not better than my fathers.' He lay down and slept under a juniper tree; and behold, there was an angel touching him, and he said to him, 'Arise, eat.'" (1 Kings 19:4, 5)
We see Elijah here as someone who felt even lower than an ordinary person, praying in agony as some do when overwhelmed by troubles, saying, "Lord, I want to die, take me." Yes, dear ones, Elijah was a common man with a nature just like ours. Yet, when he prayed, "it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months. Then he prayed again, and the sky poured rain and the earth produced its fruit."
If we are to be people used by God, it is essential that we are also those who endure trials and sufferings. Moreover, through today's meditation, we realize that people who experience suffering and pain are not necessarily sinners. Perhaps, some of those we see experiencing hardships in daily life are like the Elijahs whom God is currently using.
That is why the Lord Jesus Christ said: "See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that their angels in heaven continually see the face of My Father who is in heaven." (Matthew 18:10)
Let us not look down upon the humble people we encounter. They may be the vessels God is preparing to use. Their angels may be those who continually behold the face of the Heavenly Father in heaven. God can use them to perform great deeds—to shut the heavens and to open them so that it rains. Therefore, let us not despise anyone based on outward appearance.
Message by: Bro. M. Geo Prakash





