Glorious Gentleness

Unlocked: Daily Devotions for Teens · Nov 1, 2021 · 6m

**Editor’s note: Today’s reading discusses suicide*** If you ever want to see God’s power and glory right by His compassion and gentleness, read 1 Kings 17-19. Elijah experienced the full gamut of God’s character in these chapters. Elijah was a prophet (someone who spoke to God’s people on His behalf) in Israel at a time when Israel was praising the false god, Baal. In chapter 18, Elijah challenged the prophets of Baal to an epic showdown on a mountaintop to prove who was the true godBaal or the Lord. So 450 prophets of Baal built an altar, put a bull on it as an offering, and asked Baal to…