Fight the Good Fight
His lungs screamed for more oxygen with each step, as Elijah ran through the wilderness. Light-headed, Elijah’s mind was bombarded with thought after thought. “ You’re the only prophet left. Nobody even cares about God, so why do you? Might as well end it now, just kill yourself. If you don’t, Jezebel will.” As he saw a tree come into vision, Elijah wandered over to it, and sat in the shaded relief of it’s branches. With face in his hands, he pleaded and screamed before God. “It is enough!” he yelled. “Now, Lord, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!” No, the Bible doesn’t give this much explanation as to how Elijah felt in 1 Kings 19, but I imagine it was pretty close. In that chapter, we see the prophet Elijah running for dear life. He had just done a mighty work that proved God is the only true god to Israel, and killed off 450 prophets of Baal. But after Jezebel, queen of Israel, sent him a death threat, Elijah feared for his life. Elijah was ...