Romans 11:1-4
"God did not reject his people, whom he foreknew. Don't you know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah - how he appealed to God against Israel: 'Lord, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars; I am the only one left, and they are trying to kill me'? And what was God's answer to him? 'I have reserved for myself seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal.'"
Have you ever felt that you were abandoned by God? Sometimes we are under circumstances that are not desirable, and we would convey our questions and struggles to God. Wasn't Elijah in the Old Testament time like this? When he was zealous enough to risk his own life, he fight with the four prophets of Baal in Mount Carmel. Queen Jezebel, however, sent people to pursue and kill him until he was in the wilderness of Beersheba. When he was under a broom tree he thought about everything that he had sacrificed for God, including risking his own life, yet God didn't help him and let him ran for his life. "God, where are you? I'm all alone now, aren't you going to do something?" Are you familiar with such language? Not only was Elijah under such circumstance, Martha in the New Testament was in similar situation. She felt that she was busy for the Lord but wasn't recognized, while her sister didn't help her and just sat beside Jesus, yet received the better blessing. Therefore, he spoke out to the Lord, "Lord, don't you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!"
The truth is that God has never forsaken you. We feel forsaken because we don't understand the will of God. On the other hand, we only see ourselves, but don't see what God's hand has done. When Elijah sat beneath the broom tree and was waiting for die, the Lord told him: "I never abandoned you and the Israelites, for I have left seven thousand warriors who have never bowed down to Baal, but you just didn't know."
Brothers and sisters, did you know that God has never forsaken you? When Jesus was nailed on the cross for the sins of you and I, He also tasted the bitterness of being separated from God. Therefore, when He was the cross, he cried out to God: "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" Because He was resurrected from death, He opened a new way to life, and our relationship with God will never to cut off again. As long as you are in Christ, God cannot forsake you; if you are in a spiritual valley, you need to proclaim victory again the enemy!
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