(credit: Varsha Salome)
Even as you hit the fast lane of life with furious strides that brook no brakes, won’t you pause a moment to grab a grain of scriptural truth embedded herein ? (click on hypertext in the Day’s Reading for reference verse)
No obligations! You are of course perfectly at liberty to skip these Readings altogether. Should that be your choice, go ahead – save 30 seconds!
God bless!
__________________________________________________________
The audacity of faith
This takes some guts! Bad enough standing for God as a single man opposite no fewer than eight hundred and fifty prophets of Baal and Asherah. Elijah is making things difficult for himself – and for God – by asking for water to be poured on the sacrifice, not once but three times. We read that the ” the water ran down around the altar and even filled the trench”.
Then he calls upon the Lord and says “answer me” twice; there is no frenzy or agitation in his simple prayer; just a plea for God to” let it be known today that you are God in Israel”. The Lord glorified His name.
How strong is your faith?
____________________________________________________________
4 Oct. setting 1 January as Day 1