Cage Match
The nation of Israel just wants to "grow" and "prosper" and be creative in the ways they pursue that. AKA Baal and Asherah. These are popular and powerless. By the grace of God, this leads to drought and failure. Elijah stacks the deck against Yahweh in favor of Baal... to let God show off a bit. (It isn't that other "gods" aren't real, or there aren't other powers and forces in the Universe. It is that God, Yahweh, declares Himself God above all.) God proves Himself to the nation of Israel, brings them to worship, and then brings the rain. Where we are Israel and chase after any other "way", may God strip us of our idols and bring us back to the Way, the Truth and the Life. May we have the confidence of Elijah rather than the shallow what-have-you-done-for-me-lately "faith" of Israel.