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 A Widow's Faith-
There are those who can teach us regarding a faith if we will but open our hearts and our minds.  One such perosn is a woman whose husband had died.  Left alone to raise her son, she had tried to find ways of supporting herself, but she lived in a time of terrible famine.  Food was scarce and many were perishing because of hunger.
As available food diminshed, so did the woman's hope of surviving.  Every day, she watched helplessly as her meager supply of food decreased.  Hoping for relief but finding none, the woman fnally realized the day had come when she had only enough food for one last meal. 
[Does this story sound familiar?]

It was then that a stranger approached and asked the unthinkable.  "Bring me, I pray thee," he said to her, "a morsel of bread."
The woman turned to the man and said, "as the Lord thy god liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil ina cruse."  She told him she was about to prepare it as a last meal for herself and her son, "that we may eat it, and die."
She did not know that the man before her was the prophet Elijah, sent to her by the Lord.  What this prophet told her next may seem surprising to those today who do not understand the principle of faith.  "Fear not," he said to her, "but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make for thee and for the son."
Can you imagine what he must have thought?  What she must have felt?  She harldy had time to reply when the man continued, "For thus saith t eh Lord God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the Lord sendeth rain upon the earth."
The woman, after hearng this prophetic promise, went in faith and did as Elijah had directed.  "And she, and he, and her house, did eat many days.  And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by Elijah" (1 Kings17:11-16).
In the wisdom of our day, the prophet's request may seem unfair and selfish.  In the wisdom of our day, the widow's response may appear foolish and unwise.  That is largely because we often learn to make decisions based upon what we see.  We make decisions based on the evidence before us and what appears to be in our immediate, best interest. 
"Press On" by Joseph B. Wirthlin