unduly occupied with his service: “I, even I only am left”—to maintain Thy cause. And third, that he was chagrined at the absence of those results he had expected? The workings of pride—his threefold “I”—choke the exercises of faith. Observe how Elijah repeated those statements (v. 14) and how God’s response seems by His very corrective to specify the disease-Elisha was appointed in his place! God then withdrew His strength for the moment that Elijah might be seen in his native weakness. He did so