God protects His people.

Verses 3-4

Obadiah feared the LORD greatly and had helped to hide one hundred prophets of the LORD from a massacre and fed them.

Verse 16

However, Obadiah was afraid that Ahab would kill him so he was scared to tell Ahab about Elijah. However, God had instructed Elijah to present himself to Ahab, and Elijah asked Obadiah to talk to Ahab.

Obadiah helped Elijah and did not get killed. When we are asked to do something for God, we may be afraid, but we know that we are doing according to what God has instructed us so we know that we will be in safe hands.

Even if we face danger, we know that our lives and our all are in the hands of God.

Jesus Christ is the only One True God.

As can be seen from Elijah’s victory on Mount Carmel, God is truly the LORD God. All those who had turned aside from the One True God and forsook the commandments of the LORD were executed.

Let us keep the statutes, ordinances and commandments that the LORD God has instructed us to follow all the days of our life for our good and because the Lord Jesus Christ is King.

What the LORD God has said will come to pass.

Verse 44

Elijah had done what the LORD God had said and although the drought did not immediately end because Elijah’s servant had to check seven times, the drought would soon end, when the small cloud rose out of the sea. Indeed, the word of the LORD from verse 1 came to pass.

Sometimes, we may ask God to help us in a certain situation and we may not see anything changing. However, that does not mean that God did not hear our prayers and does not mean that God will not help us.

Instead, as long as we do not ask amiss, we ought to continue praying as we wait in faith for God’s timing. In God’s time, God will help us. God helps us, but not always in the way we expect.

Oftentimes, we may only see one way to solve something but God knows the bigger picture, knows what is the best way to solve our problems, and knows what is best for us.

Verses like Romans 8:28 tell us that what God has said will come to pass, that whatever we go through will be for our good. Therefore, we can trust that God will work things out for our good even when we may not see the good in what we go through.

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