With Elijah On Mount Horeb

The Bible never hides the humanity of its heroes. Noah, Abraham, David all have incredible failures recorded in the Bible. Even the prophet Elijah, known best for praying fire down from heaven, is shown curled up and a tree praying to die. Elijah believed it was up to him to save all of Israel, and he believed he was on his own. But God showed him he wasn;t the only one left. In fact, there were over 7,000 other faithful worshipers. You can't do walk the Christian journey alone, you can't make it on your own. Sometimes you need to be on the mountain of God deep in prayer, but sometimes you need to get off the mountain and go find a friend. In the long run there's probably nothing more important than friendship. However important you think friendship is, God would probably tell you it's even more important. And whatever it is that you are sacrificing your friendships for in order to achieve, is probably not worth it in the long run. Elijah thought his zealous work for God was the most important thing, but without friendship he ended up emotionally crippled and useless for ministry.