Elijah sure brings it in this chapter. He doesn’t waste any time skirting around the issue when he tells Ahab, “You’re being a horrible leader. Oh, and this famine? Yeah, that has nothing to do with me. I’m not the troublemaker here. Maybe you should take a look in the mirror. You’re the one that has forsaken the commands of the Lord and is following the Baals, so stop trying to pass the buck. All of these physical and spiritual issues we’re having here in Israel are a direct result of that.”
Elijah then challenges the people to stop their wavering, their double mindedness. You can’t live for God one day and the god of rain the next. You can’t party all weekend and then try to serve the Lord on Sunday. You can’t have it both ways. You have to commit. The LORD is God or Baal is – one is true and the other false. The one that answers by fire is legit. You must follow Him wholeheartedly and forget the other. Hmmm. Follow wholeheartedly. Sounds so easy, right? Yet it’s so difficult to do when we’re straddling the fence.
-Gina G.
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