He said to his servant, "Go up now, look toward the sea." So he went up and looked and said, "There is nothing." And he said, "Go back" seven times.I wonder how long this took. It doesn't say how far up the mountain Elijah was, but presumably he wasn't quite at the top. Depending on how long the hike up was, this could have taken hours to go through this seven times. After all that while, you wonder how sick of this the servant got?
This is a good reminder of how our timing is not always God's. Even Elijah didn't get the exact time correct. He had to wait as well, until his prophecy came to pass. The servant had to wait, except while he was waiting he still had work to do: checking to see if the prophecy had come true yet, and that didn't mean being passive. Just because God has said something is going to happen, it doesn't mean we get to just sit around until it does.
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