1. Satan Knows Our Weakest Moment, and Uses It
2. Loneliness is a Part of the Price of Leadership

"I, even I only, am left a prophet of the Lord" (1 Kings 18:22); "I, even I only, am left" (1 Kings 19:10,14); "Yet will I leave me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal" (1 Kings 19:18); "Then he mustered... seven thousand" (1 Kings 20:15); "Elijah... a man of like passions (nature) with us" (James 5:17).

It is a gracious thing that, in recording the lives of His most used and representative servants, the Lord has never hidden their weaknesses. Most biographers seem to feel that it would harm their subjects, weaken the testimony, or do injury to the work to which they were called if they dwelt upon their human nature on its weakest side and pointed out when and where they broke down. There is also a mistaken kindness in this omission; the idea that, all of us being so faulty, we should never refer to the weaknesses of others. If the life was truly glorifying to God as a whole, and the work was really a work of God, it only enhances the grace of God to show how He was with, and blessed, such VERY human and imperfect vessels, and no one who really loves the Lord will take that fact as a cover and condemnation of repeated failures. At the same time it is true that God is the only One Who has the right to speak of human weaknesses, and everyone who does so under His direction must do it with deep humility and fear: the reason for this is recognized in such representative cases as Moses, Elijah, David, Peter, etc. Even in the case of Christ Himself, although He did NOT succumb, yet this factor held good, and in His case the fact is definitely shown. That factor is this: Satan knows our weakest moment, and uses It.