Good Morning Friends,
God has people through whom He can work that we
don’t even know about. That was true in Elijah’s day … and it’s still true
today.
Elijah ran away in fear and cried out in
despair to God, “I have been very zealous for the LORD God Almighty. The
Israelites have rejected your covenant, broken 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.” (1 Kings 19:10)
Elijah thought he was the only one left who was
still faithful to God. He was wrong!
God replied to Elijah’s lament, “I reserve
seven thousand in Israel – all whose knees have not bowed down to Baal and all
whose mouths have not kissed him.” (1 Kings 19:18)
There were 7,000 people in Israel who had not
bowed to Baal … who were still faithful to the Lord. God had more people in
Judah, too. Elijah was not alone. He was not the only one through whom God
could or would work.
There have been many other times in history
when individuals or groups thought they were the only ones left who were on the
right track … who were being faithful to the Lord. But that has never been
true. God’s work has never been confined to one person … or even to a group of people.
In other corners of society and other corners of the world, God has had other
people in every age of the history of His Kingdom.
During the years of the isolation of the church
in China the church in the West thought that the Gospel had died there, that
there was no witness in China to the true faith. But that wasn’t true. God
still had people in China that no one in the West knew about. In fact, the
church in China, even during the darkest days of oppression, was still healthy
and growing despite the persecution.
Don’t ever despair and think that God’s work is
almost extinct and that you or your group are the last holdouts of
faithfulness. You’ll be surprised in eternity to discover that God is at work in
ways and through people about which you know nothing.
His, by Grace,
Steve
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