getting personal Elijah spoke into an age like ours. Just as Israel practised idolatry, people today turn to all sorts of spiritual beliefs and lifestyles that seem “broad-minded”. By contrast, Elijah had one overriding conviction: the invisible Lord lives, and we cannot avoid or escape him. Is that your conviction? How has your confidence in the presence of the living God sometimes been undermined by the “modern” ideas of our age? How will you resist the influence of these wrong ideas? investigate