By H.H. Pope Shenouda III 
Do not trust your senses for they are weak and cannot comprehend the matters of the spirit. The  widow of Zarephath of Sidon, saw with her human eye only a handful of  flour in the bin and a little oil in the jar.. She thought that was only  sufficient to make a cake for her and her son that they might eat it  and die... But Elijah, the man of God saw something else with his  spirit.. he saw that neither the bin of flour nor the jar of oil would  dry whatever she took from them.. This actually happened as we see in 1  Kings 17:14-16