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When God sent Elijah to the Sidonite widow and her fatherless orphan, did He do it because of her amazing leadership potential? Because of her mission-critical position in her society?
One thing we can tell for sure - He didn’t choose her
to take care of His servant because of the incredible surplus of her personal resources.
Why did God go out of the way to pass over His own people and send Elijah to an outsider, to a foreigner, to a marginalized nobody hanging by a thread on the tattered fringes of
society?
Was it for Elijah’s sake?
Was it for the widow’s sake?
Was it for our sake?
Was it for His own sake?
For what kind of God steps outside of a religious box – in
fact, busts open the old religious box - and makes such an unexpected, even scandalous choice?
What kind of God chooses the underdog, the discard, the
misfit…?
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What kind of God when He steps into the game of life…
– where all the moral
chips of our universe seem to be stacked in favor of the elite, of the blessed,
of the prosperous and successful, of the leaders and the doers, the movers and
the shakers –
... what kind of God tips the table over… upturns the table … on
behalf of ... a loser?
…but
God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and God has chosen the weak things
of the world to confound the things which are strong, and the base things of
the world and the despised God has chosen, the things that are not, so that He
may bring to nothing the things that
are, so that no man may boast before
God. I Corinthians 1:27-29
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