Many of us have felt what Elijah felt out in the wilderness. Things are quickly going from bad to worse and I am the only one left who cares! That was Elijah's weary response to God. It came after Elijah's momentous victory over the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel. How quickly we can slide from the mountain of triumph into the valley of despond. Elijah did. Queen Jezebel was after his blood. He had fled out into the wilderness. He was hiding in a cave. God came to him in that cave and asked him, "What are you doing here, Elijah?"

It was a fair question. God had given him the victory over the 450 prophets of Baal. It was God who ignited the fire under the animal sacrifice and settled once and for all who was more powerful, Baal or Yahweh. Elijah was God's man, God's champion, God's ambass…