“There he went into a cave and spent the night. And the word of the Lord came to him: “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
He replied, “I have been very zealous for the Lord God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too.”
[TheLORD says,] Yet I reserve seven thousand in Israel—all whose knees have not bowed down to Baal and whose mouths have not kissed him.”
(1 Kings 19:9, 14, 18)
This is so typical of me. Just when I am so sure I am the only faithful one left, God is able to identity 7,000 others just as faithful or perhaps even more so. Why do I jump to the conclusion that my situation is the most pitiful of all? Do others do this, too?
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