ELIJAH

“Then the woman said to Elijah, ‘Now I know that you are a man of God and that the Word of the Lord from your mouth is the truth.”

1 Kings 17:24

Spurgeon called him, “The Iron Prophet!” Ahab, the king of Israel, called him, “The troubler of Israel” (1 Kings 18:17). His contemporaries call him things even a great deal less complimentary. His name, Elijah, meant, “Yahweh is God,” or “Jehovah is God,” and certainly his life demonstrated that he believed that with no wavering.

Henry Halley in Bible Handbook, offers this tribute to the man saying, “Elijah’s rare, sudden, and brief appearances, his undaunted courage and fiery zeal, the brilliance of his triumphs, the pathos of his despondency, the glory of his departure, and the calm beauty of his re-appearance on the Mount of Transfiguration, make him one of the grandest and most romantic characters Israel ever produced.

From these grand words we might assume that Elijah was no less than the iron man which Spurgeon alluded to, yet the fact is what made this man so great is that he was human as we are, filled with the same emotions yet had a heart for God which separated him, not only from his contemporaries but from the generations of history as well.

Read the story of his life in 1 Kings 17 through 2 Kings 2, and see the highs and lows of a man who experienced the gamut of human emotions.

Elijah is the champion of the common man. He tells you that God will hear your heart cry and will honor the desire of your heart to seek and to serve the Heavenly Father with all of your faults and failures. Thank God for Elijah and take heart. The God of Elijah is not dead nor does He sleep. The God of Elijah is the Everlasting Father who will meet you today.

God Bless YOU..

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