Conspicuous: very easy to see or notice; attracting attention by being great or impressive.  That’s a word that hit me between the spiritual eyes this week.  I was reading the current chapter in the book we’re going through for our weekly Men of the Word Bible study.  It spoke of the showdown between Elijah and the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel in I Kings 18.  The writer pointed out the fact that Elijah had 12 barrels of water poured over the altar before praying for the Lord to consume his sacrifice with fire from Heaven.  Stop and think about that.  Elijah made the task more difficult; it’s a given that dry wood ignites and burns faster and better than if it’s waterlogged.  Elijah seemed to almost go overboard to make it clear that if something happened, it would have to be God who did it and God who got the credit.  He didn’t try to help the Lord; on the contrary, he went out of his way to stack the odds against the miracle (if that’s possible with God).  Elijah wanted to make sure that God was conspicuous.  Didn’t David do that when he took off Saul’s armor and faced Goliath with just a slingshot?  Didn’t that happen when Joshua and his people simply marched in circles around Jericho?  How about Gideon’s victorious army of 300 being outnumbered at least 450 to 1?  In each of these cases, God was conspicuous.  Now here’s the “between the eyes” moment: is God conspicuous in what’s happening in my life and ministry?  Or is there a human explanation?  In Elijah’s story, when the fire fell from Heaven, all the people could say was, “The Lord, He is God!”  Am I making God that conspicuous in my life?  Are you?