DAILY?READINGS: Esther 7-8; Malachi 2:10 to 3:6; Rev. 21:9 to 22:5
And (Elijah) said…and I, even I only, am left…And the Lord said unto him…“Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal.” 1 Kings 19:10, 15, 18
Elijah had spent his life serving God and was devastated by the seeming lack of fruit. Depression struck! The Lord reminded him that, unknown to him, there were 7,000 in Israel who had refused to bow the knee to Baal. Were they the result of seeing Elijah’s courageous stand for God? If you are discouraged, press on. Remember that there is much we do not know of how God has been working through us. May we be, “always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord” (1 Cor. 15:58). —David Croudace
The task Thy wisdom hath assigned, O let me cheerfully fulfill;
In all my works Thy presence find, and prove Thy good and perfect will.
—Charles Wesley