1 + 1

The prayer of the meditations of my heart this morning was that one
plus one should be two.

This was the theme of my morning devotion period and indeed the theme
that would follow me through today.

Maths is so beautiful. It is a world where the variables, those things
that can bring about various results to a situation if they are
changed ever so slightly can be summed up with a symbol.

Real life situations is nothing like maths. With mathmatics when you
add one to another one you get a logical conclusion and the answer is
two. With real life situations, this is not always or necessarily the
case.

We know the scripture says that whatsoever a man sows that is what he
is going to reap. But have you ever wondered why this seems to be more
so the cased when evil is sown than when good is the thing that is
sown. It is as if evil is given a right of way to produce results, so
it ends up producing results faster so much so that one plus one
almost immediately becomes two. But when it is good, certain limitatin
forces raise there head and the result does not come as fast as if it
was evil i.e. if it ever comes in the first place.

So it was a consciously clinical and deliberate effort when I prayed
this morning. There is nothing like seeing a good plan and executing
it and seeing the predictable results. But with life, if you don't get
to know that one plus one being two would almost always meet with
resistance when that one being sown is in all goodness and hope life
in itself can become a fustrating experience.

What really made that meditative prayer have a deeper effect on me was
that I was led to Psalm 13 this morning. It was the 6 verses of that
Psalm the God's Spirit used to speak to me. And I saw a man asking God
how long? The combination of the Psalm and the call that woke me up
this morning brought the prayer up from the depths of my spirit having
being incubated by God's Spirit.

You will have to pray for one plus one to be two in your life. You
would have to spiritually exert that the drama should be put paid to.
That since in the physical sciences one plus one is two then when you
sow or execute a plan that is good the expected result must come
without delay. One plus one must be two.

Not in the Fire

".... was not in the fire" of events in mount Horeb 1 Kings 19

How many times have we looked at someone or something and thought in our hearts that this must be it but it eventually turned not to be? You don't have to amswer that.
Elijah had good reason to expect to see or hear from God.
It was God who told him to come to the mountain. It was a clear cut direction and the direction came as a result of a copnversation held weeks back. He was fleeing and hiding from Jezebel when God approached him. He told the Lord his own version of the story and his thoughts about it and God as if saying that they should hold this conversation in a more condusive environment, told him to get to a mountain.

He had angelic encounter along the way. This would have further butteressed the first point. First the discussion and secondly an angel met him along the way. The angel actually roused him from sleep, indicating or implying that he was being watched over as he headed towards the point of rendevous.

He ate angel's food. Along the way, after being roused up, he was more or less served a meal in bed. He was been givem first class service all the way by spiritual beings as he was ushered on the meet The Spirit and creator of all beings. It won't be too far fetched if he imagined himself from that moment on being treated like royalty along his journey. He could have been chauffer driven in chariots of gold in the midst of an entourage and as he got to the mountains, angellic beings would line the streets and throw their robes and palm fronds on the ground as he glided by towards the majestic throne room of The Almighty.

He received miraculous strength. Who would go forty days without food and with strength and not imagine that God Himself will be waiting at the base of that mountain to lead him on to some private room to continue the discussion?
But Elijah got to the mountain. The ground shook, the wind blew and there was fire, God was in neither. Samuel saw Eliab and rose to pour the oil on his head but God was not in the fire. He looked the part and six more men of the stock of Jesse passed by, everyone of them "kings" but God was upon neither, God was not in the fire. Saul waited and waited and when he saw that men were scattering, he decided to do the sacrifice himself, God was not in the scattering, God was not in the fire.
After all this years, we still walk by sight yet God is not in the fire. We still look and judge by what we see but God is not in the fire. We say if its God then it must feel and look a certain way but God is not in the fire. This is sum of the matter: God is not in the fire.