1 Kings 19 tells about how the Israelites, once again, had turned their backs on God (how many times are they going to do this?! It just goes to show how forgiving God really is). They had listened to King Ahab and his evil wife Jezebel and had constructed altars to the false god, Baal. God then sent a prophet named Elijah to declare that God would send a drought in the land. The drought came and the people suffered. Elijah then challenged the false prophets to prepare a bull to be sacrificed on an altar for Baal, but they must call on Baal to send fire. Well guess what…nothing happened. Then Elijah said he’d do the same thing but call on Big “G” God to send fire. He made it more exciting by telling the people to pour water all over it, which would prove to be even harder to light on fire. Well guess what then…God sent fire! What’s cool about this is the Bible calls it “fire from heaven” which can be interpreted as lightning. Miraculous lightning, since there was not a cloud in the sky. It even burned up the water that was poured all over it. And then, the people fell on their faces and worshiped God.
Anyway, I thought this story was so awesome and telling of God’s power. And I must warn you, the picture I drew today is a pretty crazy interpretation of what happened. I’m going to call it a loose interpretation…it may only make sense to me. I don’t really know what I was thinking…there’s water that’s turned to fire and the lightning is what’s causing it. I think I may have been sleepy. Hey, they can’t all be hits! Maybe next time.
Hope Abounding 
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