Last Sunday, we heard some cool old testament stories about Elijah... about how that original Jezebel was so mean to him that he wanted to throw in the towel - but God helped him through and he went on to fight the good fight again - and again - and again.
In these old testament stories there are some pretty fantastic, supernatural scenarios so some folks don't take them seriously. Did Elijah's coat really part a river? Here's my answer:
I don't know and I don't care.
The point, to me, is how these grumpy, depressed old prophets hung in there and did what they had to do despite the mysery that was brought to bare.
One of my favorite stories is about the prophet Jeremiah who tried everything to get the king to listen to the word from God. Including having his scribe, Baruch, write it all down on a scroll. Page after page after page after page.
Since Jeremiah couldn't get an appointment with the king he sent Baruch who, in turn gave it to Jehudi to read to the king. Think about how difficult it was in ancient times to write anything down - much less a huge document, about the size of the Pentagon Papers.
Only to have the king take each page as it was being read and throw it in the fire.
What did Jeremiah say when Baruch reported this news? Something like this: Get together some quills for your pens and dry out some skins for making scrolls - because we're gonna write it all again.
And they did. And that's what I want to do.
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