For the most part, the Israelites had turned their backs on the Lord and gone after the Canaanite god Baal.
So the prophet Elijah comes with a message from the Lord — a call for repentance.
Things come to a head and there is a showdown on Mt. Carmel. Which god will consume the burnt sacrifice by fire? Baal didn’t answer the all-day prayers to him. It’s Elijah’s turn.
1 Kings 18:37-39 Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the Lord God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.
[38] Then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
[39] And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The Lord, he is the God; the Lord, he is the God.
When we are willing to separate ourselves from all the other gods that compete for our attention and we yield to the God of Heaven, then we will find ourselves drawn to Him in true heart worship.
Nothing in this world is more precious than a heart that is aflame with love for the Lord and a heart that burns with a desire to see God glorified — whatever the cost.
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