After the fire and after the pouring rain, Elijah should have felt like he was invincible. But, what follows that mountain top moment is truly one of the amazing moments described in the whole of Scripture. What Elijah did on the mountain may have sent King Ahab scurrying off in fear and trembling, but his wife, Jezebel, was full of fight and fury. "Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah saying, 'So may the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make your life like the life of one of them by this time tomorrow.' " (I Kings 19:2) Of course, she was saying that Elijah should consider himself as dead as those prophets of Baal that were killed after the fire fell on the mountain.
What was Elijah's response? "Then he was afraid; he got up and fled for his life..." (I Kings 19:3) Now some would simply dismiss the moment by saying that Elijah understood the fury of a woman. A word from this woman seemed more fearful than facing the 450 prophets of Baal! Regardless of how the moment is viewed, it is simply amazing that Elijah would run away in fear. He had just done a mighty deed and now he is running like a frightened rabbit.
Most of us are familiar with those kinds of moments. We know that God is all powerful and that He had done life changing things in our lives and in the lives of those around us, yet, we are constantly running in fear because we listen to some of the negative voices around us that tell us God cannot do what He has declared in His Word He will do. We often think that unbelief is the opposite of fear, but the opposite of faith is fear. Fear is what happens when we suddenly decide God is no trustworthy and dependable. Faith is living with a belief that God is as dependable on the mountain as He is in the valley.
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