Ahab was the worst king that Israel had had up to that point. He
did more evil than all that had preceded him. “Ahab did more to provoke the
Lord God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.”
On the other hand, who did God raise up to confront the worst of
all kings? Elijah, the prophet of fire. Elijah was the sharpest, boldest, most
courageous prophet in the history of Israel. To fight the worst king, God
raised up the greatest prophet.
This teaches us a very important lesson: My reaction to a problem has to match its
intensity. Proverbs 24.10 says:
“If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.”
Today we would say: “If you fall to pieces in a crisis, there
wasn’t much to you in the first place.”
If I want to change my life, overcome something evil that has
controlled me, or a warrior that’s imprisoned me, I have to be a greater man of
war than he!
A pastor has to be more of a warrior than the evil forces that
have held people back and blocked them from coming to the church. The wounded
must be stronger than their wound, the poor bolder than their poverty, and so
on.
If you stop and
think about it, this is nothing new. It’s simply a question of common sense.
And courage.
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