“Give the boy to me,” Elijah said. He took the boy from her arms, carried him upstairs to the room where he was staying, and laid him on the bed. …Then Elijah… prayed, “O Lord my God, restore this child to life!” The Lord answered Elijah’s prayer; the child started breathing again and revived.
In the image of Mark 5:38-42. So much of what we see with Elijah and Elisha will be repeated with Jesus many years later.
Elijah took the boy back downstairs to his mother and said to her, “Look, your son is alive!”
She answered, “Now I know that you are a man of God and that the Lord really speaks through you!”
Really (John 16:29-30)? There are always different levels of conviction, much like what we see in the movie The Matrix with Leo being The One. May that conviction grow ever deeper with you, Jesus.
Obadiah, who was in charge of the palace. (Obadiah was a devout worshiper of the Lord…)
In the image of Daniel 1:18-21. Bright lights in dark places.
…Jezebel was killing the Lord’s prophets…
Competition. There wasn’t a lot of middle ground (1 Kings 18:40).
“…the king has made a search for you in every country in the world. Whenever the ruler of a country reported that you were not in his country, Ahab would require that ruler to swear that you could not be found.”
Elijah was the visible face of the drought but it was the Lord that brought it about. For many, there is nothing beyond the visible face where God remains a “concept”.
When Ahab saw him, he said, “So there you are—the worst troublemaker in Israel!”
“I’m not the troublemaker,” Elijah answered. “You are—you and your father. You are disobeying the Lord’s commands and worshiping the idols of Baal.
How one views the world can be so different (Jeremiah 44:15-18)! The point of reference must always start with the Lord (Romans 1:20-21).