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The incredible success of the confrontation on Mt Horeb
takes God’s servant to a place where neither he nor we expect him to go. The
showdown at Mt Horeb sends Elijah to the top of Jezebel’s wanted list. The livid
queen promises revenge, and the terrified
man of God know she is fully capable of delivering what she promised. So, he runs for his life and he hides in the Judean
wilderness under a juniper tree.
The same man who only yesterday laughed at and mocked the
raving hordes of prophets of Baal, is now running from a woman, and begging God to take his life?!!
Seriously?!!!God, please, just kill me?!?? I am D-O-N-E?!! Period?!!
Elijah, you gotta be kidding me! This?!!! After ALL that you've seen and accomplished in the name of the Lord?!!!
Ah, how I love the unsanitized reality of the Word of God! This is not a meticulously edited article in the Judaism Today, but the gritty truth of genuine flesh-and-blood saints, the larger-than-life heroes of faith whom we also discover as fellow humans, susceptible to weaknesses and failures just like us. There is none of the carefully guarded marketing and PR gymnastics, no plastic surgery on the reputation of these men and women that makes them look bigger and better, holier and more spiritual than the rest of us.
It is quite clear that if there is anything incredible about
their extraordinary lives, it’s not them, but this incredible God whom they
love and serve.
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