Where Is Your Line?

And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there. 1 Kings 19:3

Elijah just experienced the greatest victory of his life. He'd witnessed God's awesome power in a way that brooked no argument. Yet he immediately turns and runs when a woman swears (by the same gods whose impotence he just witnessed) to kill him. Why? He trusted God with the sacrifices on Mount Carmel. He trusted God with the rain. But when it came to protecting his life, well, that was Elijah's line.
We all have one, you know--a line. A line where our trust in God runs out. It may not be at your life. It may be at your finances or your career or your family or your relationship. But there is something in your life that you find harder to "let go and let God." I won't try to psycho-analyze the myriad reasons that can contribute to our inability to trust in our various areas, in part because there are simply too many and in part because it just doesn't matter. The bottom line is, until we erase that line and learn to trust God in that area we find it hardest, we'll keep finding ourselves under another juniper--exhausted, depressed, defeated. It's really up to us: Mount Carmel victories or juniper tree defeats?