John Calvin was offering a very biblical diagnosis when he described the human heart as a perpetual factory of idols. He was describing you and me. It’s for that very personal reason that I’m so excited to study 1 Kings 18 with you on Sunday morning. Besides being a story packed with drama and sprinkled with humor (just look up v. 27!), Elijah’s dramatic showdown with the prophets of Baal at Mount Carmel help us to see more clearly God’s grace to people who find themselves being turned aside to love anyone or anything more than God.
As I think about the passage, it brings to mind the words of the beloved hymn Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing:
Oh, to grace how great a debtordaily I'm constrained to be!Let thy goodness, like a fetter,bind my wandering heart to thee:prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,prone to leave the God I love;here's my heart, O take and seal it;seal it for thy courts above.
I know my own heart is so susceptible to wandering, distraction, and wrongly ordered affections. I’m entirely dependent on God’s grace to be redirecting my heart daily back to Him. So if, like me, you find you’ve got a heart prone to wander, come hungry to listen this Sunday morning as we hear about the God who is not only able but desirous to turn our hearts back to him.
Looking forward to being with you all on Sunday,
-Pastor Wayne
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