I have always love the prophet Elijah, who suffered from a deep depression, even after his greatest triumph. He fled in fear. God spoke to him with tenderness and not scolding! He brought provision and rest for his suffering prophet and helped him get back up running. I have the same malady, deep discouragement and depression. As a returned Prodigal with a ragged road behind me, I CLING to God and His Son every single day. To cling means to not let go, to at least attempt to cast your burden daily on God and ask for His help, an inch at a time. Many of us are simply not huge "type A" conquerors but just trying to keep afloat one single day at a time. Elijah always gives me a spark of hope and I hold even more tightly to God. I may not leap huge buildings...but I can walk ONE step and then another...
I have always love the prophet Elijah, who suffered from a deep depression, even after his greatest triumph. He fled in fear. God spoke to him with tenderness and not scolding! He brought provision and rest for his suffering prophet and helped him get back up running. I have the same malady, deep discouragement and depression. As a returned Prodigal with a ragged road behind me, I CLING to God and His Son every single day. To cling means to not let go, to at least attempt to cast your burden daily on God and ask for His help, an inch at a time. Many of us are simply not huge "type A" conquerors but just trying to keep afloat one single day at a time. Elijah always gives me a spark of hope and I hold even more tightly to God. I may not leap huge buildings...but I can walk ONE step and then another...
God will never forsake those who follow Him.
Rom 11:7 What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeks for; but the election has obtained it, and the rest were blinded
God chooses who to call, in his time.
There is a first resurrection, and a second resurrection.
Those not in the first will be in the second, and will have their chance then. How that will work I don't understand, but God will sort that out too.
Our job is to be patient and wait on the Lord, and trust in his word to guide us, and not to add to it or take from it.