What kind of man is God calling you to become?
Every man is becoming someone.
The question is whether he is becoming the man God created him to be, or simply becoming the man his circumstances, desires, failures, and compromises have made him.
Ahab to Elijah is a call for Christian men to stop measuring their lives by the standards of the world and start measuring them by the standard of God. It is a journey from compromise to conviction, from passivity to responsibility, from self reliance to surrender, and from living for self to living for the God who gave us life.
Ahab and Elijah stand as powerful contrasts. One possessed power but surrendered his influence to compromise. The other stood before kings with nothing but confidence in the God he served. One allowed others to shape his convictions. The other was willing to stand alone when obedience demanded it. Their lives expose a question every Christian man eventually has to answer:
Who is really in control of your life?
This book confronts the places where men are tempted to compromise. It examines responsibility, strength, leadership, marriage, fatherhood, work, stewardship, temptation, suffering, repentance, love, discipline, and obedience. It challenges the man who has become comfortable when God has called him to be faithful, the man who wants authority without submission, strength without sacrifice, and blessing without obedience.
But this is not a book about becoming a perfect man.
It is about becoming a faithful man.
The Christian man was not created for himself. His life, strength, relationships, resources, opportunities, and future belong to God. He has been entrusted with them for a purpose. The call is not to become impressive. The call is to become useful in the hands of the One who created him.
Ahab to Elijah is an invitation to examine the man in the mirror, confront what needs to die, take hold of what God has entrusted to him, and walk forward in obedience.
