ALONE | AdventAI

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 6, 1888

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 14, No. 14.

ALONE.

LONELINESS is as often within as without. Said the prophet, who looked upon the desolate altars of Israel, “They have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.” Rom. 11: 3. And yet at that very time, notwithstanding all the pressure of the dominant idolatry and the apostate government, God had reserved seven thousand men who had not bowed the knee to Baal, and who, at the peril of their lives, hidden in secret places, were striving to maintain their integrity before God. This man Elijah, in front of the battle, found himself alone, but he did not know of the hosts held in reserve, that were hidden in secret places and that were waiting a favorable moment to openly declare themselves on the side of the God of truth.

Many a man to-day deems himself alone, simply because he is short-sighted and cannot see what God is doing in the world around him. He has dreamed that the pillars of the earth rest upon his shoulders, and that if he fails everything is gone. But this is a strange mistake. There may be standing among us men we know nothing of, whose courage and faith will put our doubts and unbelief to shame. When the disciples forsook the Lord and fled, or shrank and trembled at the sight of his cross, the honorable counselor came boldly and begged the body that hung upon the cross, and laid it in his own new tomb.

There were only three days and three nights between the darkness of Calvary and the light of resurrection life. The way from crucifixion to triumph is very short. Let us tread the path with firm and steadfast steps, and we shall find that He who has gone before us all our way of tears and sighing, shall never leave us nor forsake us in the time of our extreme trial, but will bring us to be more than conquerors through Him who hath loved us and given Himself for us.—Selected.