Finding Hope

Having just triumphed in his contest with hundreds of prophets of Baal, Elijah finds himself the subject of a death warrant to be executed immediately (see First Kings ch.18 & 19). So Elijah did what just about any of us would do, he ran. He runs out of the city and goes a day’s journey deep into the desert. He comes to a tree in the wilderness, sits under it, and there he prays to God.              In many ways Elijah in this pa...