Have You Seen This Man? Part [2] 01/15/2026 (Morning thought)

1st Kings 18: 17 And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubles Israel?

[Prophets & Kings pp 124>125] A year passes, and yet there is no rain. The earth is parched as if with fire. The scorching heat of the sun destroys what little vegetation has survived. Streams dry up, and lowing herds and bleating flocks wander hither and thither in distress. Once-flourishing fields have become like burning desert sands, a desolate waste.

The air is dry and suffocating; dust storms blind the eyes and nearly stop the breath. Once-prosperous cities and villages have become places of mourning. Hunger and thirst are telling upon man and beast with fearful mortality. Famine, with all its horror, comes closer and still closer. They were unwilling to humble themselves under the mighty hand of God, and they began to cast about for some other cause to which to attribute their sufferings.

Jezebel utterly refused to recognize the drought as a judgment from Jehovah. Unyielding in her determination to defy the God of heaven, she, with nearly the whole of Israel, united in denouncing Elijah as the cause of all their misery…. Again, when people take their focus off of God, bad luck or misfortune becomes a byproduct of the man in question, and God is left out of the equation.

Daniel 4:35 And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?

May The Lord add His blessing to the study of His word. God bless!

Have You Seen This Man? Part [1] 01/15/2026 (Evening thought)

1st Samuel 17:23 And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the armies of the Philistines, and spoke according to the same words, and David heard them.

The above passage took place when the Philistines sent their champion to rail on the kingdom of Saul, and as he came up day by day, he made a mockery of their confidence in God. This sad situation did not occur in a vacuum, for when they took their eyes off of God and asked for a king, they became fixated on man, his ways and means. Consequently, they would attribute good and bad to the man in question.

Having lost sight of Christ, everything that happens would always boil down to the man that is being focused on. The Hebrews back then, believed Moses was the reason for the manna and they also believed that Moses was responsible for the serpents. It was always all about the man. In the days of Ahab and Jezebel, it was all about the man Elijah, not about God. Thus, they go hunting for the man that they erroneously believe is the source of their troubles.

The reason for this is that they erroneously concluded that Elijah could stop steams from flowing by his own power. Take a good listen to what Ahab says when he finally sees Elijah. Here is what the prophet of God has to say about the same situation, for Elijah didn’t cause anything, it was their departure from God that was working their ruin. Not a single occurrence happened in a vacuum, but because the habit of focusing on man was endemic, God is left out of the picture.

1st Samuel 17:24 And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid. 25 And the men of Israel said, Have you seen this man? ....

May God add His blessing to the study of His word. “Good night” and God bless!