I was reading one of my previous students blogs today and he boldy took on the task of bringing up the subject of abortion and how we're rapidly approaching a day when a Christian could be persecuted(maybe not killed, but definitely fired) for not performing one if the patient is asking for it. And what we as Christians can and should do about it? So we have also been studying Elijah in sunday school and when i read these two things they kind of connected in my mind. So here's what i was thinking about when I read this.... (i posted this on his facebook so some of you may have seen it? but I thought it might be thought provoking for us??)
It kind of goes in a different direction maybe? But hopefully you can use this in your ministry at some point? So In studying Elijah recently I was reading about the evil of the nation of Israel at the time. The Kings that just kept getting worse and worse and worse than the one before. Then there was Ahab and he did more to provoke God than any of the ones even before him(1Kings 16:30-33) I was thinking about Elijah and how he lived counter culturally in a nation that is more like our culture than we realize. They worshiped Baal, who was the God of fertility. They believed the Baal appeared in thunderstorms and rainstorms. They would set up their altars on mountain tops to be closer to their God and one of their forms of worship was child sacrifice. I mean doesn't that sound familiar? Nothing has really changed? We sacrifice nearly 4, 000 children a day and that's just in America! To me sacrificing children on an altar and out of a womb is pretty much on the same level. Their God was Baal, our God is ourselves. One of my favorite things I read in the study was that he called Elijah.... A troublemaker for the Lord. And he said two things about this troublemaker.....when he gets a message from God, he's going to take action.( Your're not going to talk him out of it either), and he was also a man of prayer and enormous faith in God. God used this guy to awaken a nation. Let's Be in prayer. Let's Act on our convictions. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind. God will do big things.
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