
Over the next few weeks the nation will be tuned into championship football, both college and pro. Television makes it a spectacle, fans are adorned in team colors, oddsmakers dissect predictions, coaches strategize, players prepare. The game is played. Now if I told you on one side the team numbered 450 and the other team numbered just one, who’d watch? Yet that’s the exact scenario we read in 1 Kings chapter 18. It’s a competition. And it’s intense. The 450 team Baal members are shouting, screaming, asking for fire to fall. They had possession of the field from morning till evening. Then the one member of team Jehovah took the field. The outcome was never in doubt. Fire fell! Now I’ve omitted a lot of details hopeful you’ll read 1 Kings 18 and see the final score. *spoiler* Baal 0 – Jehovah 1. During the pre-game team Jehovah challenged the spectators with these words: “How long will you waver between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him.” You may be facing an overwhelming opposition. Take heart. Those who choose team Jehovah, *spoiler* have won! PK
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