Reversing the Irreversible

Devout believers, in most times and in most places, have had to live out their faith in conditions decidedly uncongenial to the practice and propagation of that faith.  And none more so than the prophet Elijah.  In his day, the spiritual tide was so low – and the spiritual momentum so heavily in favor of Baal and Asherah worship – that he finally came to the conclusion that all was lost.  He raised the white flag and prayed that he might die, “I have had enough, Lord”, he said, “Take my life” (1 Ki. 19:4).  But as it turned out, the reports of the death of God’s work had been grossly exaggerated.  God wasn’t quite ready yet to declare lights out on either Elijah or his saving purposes, as we’ll see this morning, in 1 Kings 18-19, in a message entitled, “Reversing the Irreversible”.