Learning from Elijah: An In Depth Devotional
Introduction (I know this is a long post, but I think God deserves a few more paragraphs of thought and reflection than the usual short devotional. So if you saw the length and said no way, come back to it when you have time.) The Bible, a set of books and letters that reveal through the ages the divine revelation of God, can sometimes feel for new believers like a grand story of fictional tales and heroic battles than the salvific historical material in which it soundly resides. Literary analysis then, aids in peeling back the merely superficial appeal of the texts and allows a deeper story to prevail, or as one scholar states, “By focusing on the text as an artistic composition, we can begin to understand the purposes of the final author…” [1] So let’s give God’s Word the attention it deserves. (short version of 1 Kings 18 & 19: Israel is whoring after the pagan god Baal, Go...