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After one, Ehaziah, the king, falls and is sick, and he sends messengers to Balesabob,

the God of Echron, to find out if he is going to make it through this sickness.

And Elijah, at the bidding of God, goes to these messengers and says to them, why are you

looking to another God for answers?

There is one true God that you are to seek, and Ehaziah ends up hearing after this that

he will die.

And as I read this story, I think about how prone you and I are when we need help, counsel,

wisdom to look to different people, or to run after different things in this world

instead of our first impulse, always being to go to God.

When you have a difficult decision, is your first impulse to pray, to seek God, even

to fast and ask God for help and direction, or is your first impulse to, let me ask this

person what they think, or let me go to this person for counsel.

The reality is God promises to give us wisdom when we need it.

God desires to lead us in every way for our good, for others good, for his glory.

So why would we go to inquire anywhere else before God?

I'm not saying that God doesn't speak through other people and use the counsel of others,

particularly other brothers and sisters in Christ who are walking in step with his spirit,

or a variety of other means that God might use to help and lead and guide us.

But the reality is it's God who we need to help and lead and guide us, and so we must

always turn.

And foremost to him, oh God, to help us, we pray to inquire of you, to seek you in all

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