February 22, 2013 – 1 Kings 18

This has always been a favorite story of mine. You don’t often see goading in the Bible, but you do here. Elijah is toying with the prophets of Baal. “Get louder, maybe your god is asleep”. And so they get louder and louder and nothing happens. I was trying to think how this relates to our “gods”. Take money. We can call out to it, seek it for help, get as much as we can, but it never truly gives us what we need. Power can call out to us and we seek it and raise our voice to achieve it, but it will leave us looking for more. There is only one God, He is the only one there listening, He is the only one that can bring us satisfaction. Everything that we seek that is not from God is screaming into the sky for a god that is not there, has never been there, and will never be there. We are the prophets of Baal trying to bring down fire. We will not get the results we want until we call out to the God that is there and waiting for us to call on Him.