Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.
After our crucifixion, Jesus brings to a place where our lives totally revolve around Him and His body (i.e., the church). There’s such an incredible work that Jesus wants to do in us, if we’ll simply yield and surrender to Him.
As we repent and fully die out (assuming we're willing to die out), there comes a point in time where God himself will deliver us out of the desert as God delivered Elijah.
re called to become part of the Elijah company, even though at it may at times appear that death may overwhelm us. We must allow Jesus to become our food and drink, if we are to be sustained.
The real question is not whether Elijah is like us but whether we will be like Him, sold out to God, to such a degree where God could use him to confront the wickedness of his day.
"If anyone comes to me and does not have single-minded loyalty to Me over his father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, and yet even his own life, he is not able to be My disciple. And whoever does not bear his own cross and come after Me is not able to be My disciple" (Lavender's New Testament).