But King Jeroboam, knowing of this Prophecy, remembering as he must that his withered hand had been healed by God, did not set his heart to seek God and to find forgiveness.
He went on in his evil ways all his life, until at length we read in the Bible the name by which he was known after his death, "Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin."
This long ago story speaks an ever-living lesson.
The God who commands will enable us to obey. Let us seek Him with all our hearts: let us learn His will in the Bible, and then the promise to each one of us will come true—
"To him that soweth righteousness, shall be a sure reward."
[XXVI. THE LORD ANSWERS ELIJAH BY FIRE]
1 KINGS 18, 19
THEN after a long time, the word of the Lord came to Elijah in the third year of the famine, saying to him, "Go, show thyself to Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth."
So Elijah went back from Zarephath, and came down to Samaria to show himself to Ahab; and the famine was very sore there.