That Remnant
Paul, in the book of Romans, reminds us that “Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace” ( Rom ans 11:1-6 ). A “remnant” is a part of a greater piece or body. It may be a small piece but it is still a part of the whole. Paul makes reference to Elijah who sat down under a juniper tree in despair and discouragement and begged God to die, thinking that he alone was left who truly believed and served the living God. God’s words to Elijah revealed just the opposite. “Yet I have left M e seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him” ( 1 Ki ngs 19:18 ). Not everyone had bowed to the idolatry of the day, not everyone had been deceived by the false prophets of the age and not everyone had gone in the cowardly way of unbelief. There was still a “remnant.” And so it is in this hour, “there is a remnant according to the election of grace.” God in His sovere