1 Kings 18:36 Meaning At the Time of the Evening Offering

He does not shout to overpower the prophets of Baal with noise or clever argument. He simply draws near, at the quiet hour of the evening offering, and speaks from stillness. His whole power rests in one thing: that he has acted not from his own restless will but at the word, from a depth beneath the personal self.

The separate "me" always wants the outcome to prove its own strength. In him there is none of that. He asks only that the source be shown to be real, and calls himself merely a servant, an opening through which something greater moves. When you stop striving to be the doer and let life act through you, what happens carries a power your small effort never could.

Standing alone against a hostile crowd, the prophet stakes his life on a claim he cannot control. He does not boast of his own power. He says instead that he acted at the word of something higher than himself, and now he waits to see whether he was right. Everything hangs on it.

Courage of this kind requires a foundation outside your own opinion. A man who serves only himself has nothing to appeal to when the whole world turns against him. Aim yourself at what is highest, do what it asks, and then stand. The outcome is no longer yours alone to carry.