... or who am I?
But one day is suddenly the angel of the Lord in his workshop. And the tragedy begins. Elijah (not convinced) is obedient to Ahab and Jezebel and brings them the divine message - no rain, until all have again turned to the Lord. He is fascinated by Jezebel's beauty, and such a pretty creature wishes for his wife.
begins a pursuit, 450 indomitable priests and prophets are massacred, the other to have previously turned to Baal because of the ample compensation or now, on pain of death. Elijah was hiding with a Levite, and dies a thousand deaths, while the soldiers around outside. You decide to surrender to end the fear. Through a wonderful escapes and flees into the desert Elia. Also there he is receiving miraculous.
It goes back to the word of the angel, in the Phoenician Zarephath (Akbar), is in with a widow. He falls in love ...
Elijah needs to learn a hard lesson. The question "Who am I" does not just rhetorical character, but is important for its survival and its determination. He understands not only accept it suffices to God's call, but to affirm from inner conviction and fight with all his strength to wrestle with God for it and ...
A touching love story, a story about the inner struggle.
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"Our souls are the Terror and death arrested, and yet it is such a beautiful day, "said the Levite." Back when I was with the world and with God in the pure, it was often very hot, let the desert wind my eyes water and I could barely see his hand before his eyes. Not always fit the plan of God for what we do and how we feel. But I am sure that he has a reason for all this. "
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" Would not you work as a carpenter, Had you not been able to let your soul come out of you, to imagine you were a talking raven, and to understand that you are better and wiser than you think, "was the reply.
"Because you've discovered in the carpenters that holy thing which is everywhere." It has always pleased me to do that when I spoke with tables and chairs that I built. Is not that enough? The woman was right, because when I spoke to them, I got thoughts that I had never before come to mind. But when I realized that I am God to could act this way because the angel appeared, and I ... well, yes - the end of the story thou knowest "The angel appeared, because you were ready for him," said the raven.
I was a good carpenter. "That was part of your apprenticeship. When a person goes to meet his fate, he must often change direction. Sometimes the external circumstances and he must give more cowardly. This is all part of the apprenticeship. "Elijah heard his soul's attention." But nobody should lose sight of what he really wants. Even if he sometimes thinks the world and the others are stronger. The secret is not to give up. "
" I never wanted to be a prophet, "said Elia. " That you wanted, but you were convinced that it is impossible or dangerous, impossible. "» Why do I say to myself things that I do not want to hear? "Elijah said and stood up abruptly. startled the bird flew away.
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"Who are you?" I do not know. "
Another moon died and was reborn in the sky. Elijah felt his body was stronger now, his mind clear. That night he turned to the raven, sitting back on his usual branch. And he repeated the question he had asked some time ago already.
I am a prophet. I saw an angel, while I worked, and I can not doubt what I am able to do, even if people say the opposite. I have caused a massacre in my country because I loved my king I challenged. I'm in the desert - as I was before in a woodworking shop - because my mind told me that a man must go through several stages before he can fulfill his destiny "Yes, now you know. who you are, "said the raven.
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" I am, "said Elia." Great. is a better currency is not it - if we need something of Jezebel, we pay with your head: Welcome to Akbar. Up . Then you look for work and is learning to feed yourself, because here we have no room for prophets "wanted to go
Elia moment, because the priest said:" It seems like as if a young woman Sidon Sole powerful than your God. She has built an altar to Baal, and now the former priest kneeling before him. "Everything is done just as the Lord said," replied the Prophet.
"There are moments in our lives which appear in adversity, we do not prevent can. But everything happens for a reason. "And what?" "That is a question we can answer only when we have overcome the difficulties, either before or in the middle. Only later we understood why they did take. "
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" I'll help you, but first
if you make the choices that you have. "
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