During the Coronavirus time, did you feel helpless? You may have looked at your own abilities or your influence and wondered what you could do.
During this time of violence and hatred in our country, do you wonder how you could make a difference?
God gives us a beautiful picture of someone in the Bible who could have felt unqualified to do anything about the hard circumstances in which he found himself. That person was Elijah.
Elijah was living at a time when King Ahab ruled. Let me remind you that Ahab’s wife was Jezebel. They made a wicked team. I Kings 16: 33 And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.
Why didn’t someone just go let King Ahab have it? It seems much of the nation of Israel had turned from God to Baal. Ahab might have been thinking he was doing pretty good running things the way he liked them. This went on for 22 years! Then we turn to Chapter 17 and everything begins to change! Continue reading “What To Do When You Feel Helpless”