Blog 14 June 2024: 1 Kings 19, 9a,11-16

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Please read this passage before reading the homily.

After the contest on Mt Carmel between Baal and God, Eljah had all the prophets of Baal killed.  This greatly angered the kng’s wife and she vowed revenge.  Eljah fled to Mt Horeb, which was the northern kingdom’s name for Mt Sinai.  Like another Moses, Elijah had fled to the Lord’s holy mountain.

It was perhaps a mighty God that Elijah had gone to find.  A fierce wind, a mighty earthquake and a blazing fire occurred, but God was not revealed to Elijah in the strength of these.  It was in a sliver of a whisper that God spoke to Elijah.

It was not in the power and might of nature or of armies that God would come.  Rather in the chrismation of kings and prophets that God would show God’s fidelity to God’s prophet and people.  Kingdoms would endure and prophets would come after Elijah, which means that God would remain with God’s people and continue to be concerned about their future.

When we are concerned about our future and the people whom we love, we can look, as God had indicated to Elijah, to the birth of infants and the growth of families to see assurances that God has not abandoned us.