Today, I am reading and commenting on 2 Kings 3-4.

It took me awhile to figure out what to write today.  After much thought it occurred to me that we can learn a lot about how God works from the miracle stories in today’s passage.  First, in the account of the prophet’s widow, Elisha gave her a task which would allow her to pay off her dead husband’s debts and have the means to survive after doing so.  How well she and her sons were provided for depended on the effort which they made to follow through on the instructions which Elisha gave them.  The same is often true for us: God will provide a method for us to have our needs met, but it will often depend upon our willingness to work.  The story of the the Shunammite woman and her son teaches something different.  The Shunammite woman did not seek anything from God because she was afraid she would lose it, but Elisha asked God to give her a son.  Then when the tragedy she feared occurred and her son died of some childhood illness, she cried out to Elisha, he in turn went tog God and her son was restored to her.  The Shunammite woman was afraid to have a good thing in her life because she feared that suffering would follow.  When we seek to serve God, He will provide us with our deepest desires which are consistent with His will, even when we are afraid to ask for them.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.