Day 149: 2 Kings 1-4

Israel and her leadership seem to keep deserting God and going after false gods and idols. 2 Kings begins with this:

    After Ahab’s death, Moab rebelled against Israel. Now Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria and injured himself. So he sent messengers, saying to them, “Go and consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron, to see if I will recover from this injury.”
     But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Go up and meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and ask them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going off to consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron?’ Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘You will not leave the bed you are lying on. You will certainly die!’” So Elijah went. (2 Kings 1:1-4)

I've always thought it was a little weird. I mean, I don't really understand the allure of idolatry. Why in the world would Ahaziah want to consult Baal? I love the sarcasm of Elijah's words, "Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going off to consult Baal-Zebub?" But then I wonder if God doesn't often feel the same way about us...I mean, where do we go for advice and wisdom? Who do we consult? We have a tendency to follow the advice and trends of the society around us. Sadly, God and His word is often the last place we look...if nothing else works. Is it because there is no God that we go off to consult __________(fill in the blank)?