"I believe in God as I believe the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else." -CS Lewis

In I Kings 19, Elijah is on the run, tired, discouraged, depressed, afraid of dying and wishing to die. He has crashed after a great success and does not know what to do next.

He has some real issues with God and expresses them honestly. Three words come to Him … simple words with big meaning: Eat. Stand. Go.

It is surprisingly yet, not without expectation, wonderful, how all the readings feed the central truth of the day.

" … Get up and eat for the journey is too much for you." (7)

Psalm 42 presents us with the notion of "panting spirituality" that longs for the water of life.

"… Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the LORD, for the LORD is about to pass by." (11)

Of course, that presence did not make Itself known in any ways that Elijah might have expected. The kind of faith-listening Elijah needed defied norms and his own boxed-in ideas of how God might speak.

" … Go back the way you came…" (15)

He still have a mission and purpose. In Luke 8, the recently delivered demoniac wanted to hang out with Jesus and His disciples and Jesus sent him back to his home on a mission.

Eat, stand, and go or get up, go out, and go back.

Either way you group them, it culminated with a GO!

Elijah was fashioned for a mission … one larger than himself …. one for which his own emotional, physical, and spiritual strength were inadequate. Yet, his call was to go, and in order to go, he'd need to be fed and he'd need to listen for direction.