“And he [Elijah] said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left….“[And God said] I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him...Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.”
(1 Kgs. 19:14,18;Rom. 11:5)
Whenever I hold the door for a woman, I always whisper as she passes, “There are still a few of us left.” Many of God’s good people today, and understandingly so, feel there is no one else out there, that they must go it alone. But at such times one must listen for that still small voice saying, “There are still a few of us left.”
No matter how bad it may appear on the surface, God has always had His fragment of followers, those who have“turned the world upside down,”as Luke’s inspired history tells us in Acts. You may not hear much about them but nevertheless they’re there. No need to fall into the Elijah syndrome; you’re not left alone!
One has coined the phrase, “The silent majority.” Old Dr. Bob Jones Sr. used to say to the young preacher boys leaving his school to go into various towns to start a work for God, “Boys, remember: into any community you enter, you and God make the majority.” Paul put it this way, “If God be for us who can be against us?
A young lieutenant with a railroad spike for a backbone told his outnumbered men, “Men, the enemy is all around us, don’t let one get away!”
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