<p>11:3 <em>Lord, they have killed Your prophets, they have destroyed Your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life- </em><em>There</em> is such a thing as feeling lonely when we needn&rsquo;t. Elijah is an example of this; he felt that he was &ldquo;left alone&rdquo; faithful in Israel- even though there were another 7,000 who had not bowed the knee to Baal (Rom. 11:3). The Hebrew in 1 Kings is hard to translate. It could mean that God reserved 7,000 of Elijah&rsquo;s brothers and sisters who potentially would not bow the knee to Baal. Yet Elijah didn&rsquo;t want to see the potential of his brethren. He set himself in a league above them, like the Psalmist, saying in his haste that all men are liars (Ps. 116:11).</p>