Elijah, the great man of God...
Elijah, the great man of God, was in despair, ready to quit. But it is like the Hall of Fame football coach Vince Lombardi once put it: "Winners never quit, and quitters never win." God did not abandon Elijah, for God is no quitter. He did not quit on the Hebrews, did not quit on Elijah, and will not quit on us. (That is why he sent Jesus.) And that faithfulness is what guarantees that God's ways will prevail, for he is the ultimate winner, the one who never quits! It is as the famed theologian of hope Jurgen Moltmann once wrote: "God is faithful. He does not deny himself.