January 3, 2022
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Reading along with us in 2 Kings? Here’s today’s reading:
2 Kings 7 (NIV)
1Elisha replied, “Hear the word of the Lord. This is what the Lord says: About this time tomorrow, a seah of the finest flour will sell for a shekel and two seahs of barley; also in verses 16 and 18 of barley for a shekel at the gate of Samaria.”
2 The officer on whose arm the king was leaning said to the man of God, “Look, even if the Lord should open the floodgates of the heavens, could this happen?”
“You will see it with your own eyes,” answered Elisha, “but you will not eat any of it!”
The Siege Lifted
3 Now there were four men with leprosy at the entrance of the city gate. They said to each other, “Why stay here until we die?........Continue Reading
2 kings:6&7
2kings: 7
What an amazing miracle and gracious provision God makes for his wayward people. And it is all by the word of Elisha. And what a great example of what we sometimes face: I have no idea how God is going to resolve this or that…there seems to be no solutions. But our God shows here that He is the God of the impossible and He even uses human means to accomplish it. So the gates of heaven don’t open, but God causes the Arameans to think they have to flee for their lives…so their camp is now open. There are so many ways God can work to resolve issues in our lives. Accounts like this reenforce it. We are called to trust and obey. SO, how big is your God?
2 Kings 7
2 Kings8
This certainly is a time when God shows the people how He can make the impossible possible. I love that the officer who doubted this happening was able to see it come to pass before he was trampled. God wants our complete devotion and faith to him but if we put God in a box of what we think He can and can’t do we will never be able to do that. Awestruck wonder….that is what we need to always have for our view of God!
I was thinking that man thinks of how something will occur according to the laws of nature. We often use logic (understandably) to reason how something did or will occur. It made me think of Revelation and how we try to fit the events there into our understanding of how things happen naturally now. Historically, the Israelites were scattered all over the earth, and people said there was no way that Israel would return to the land, but it happened in 1948. I think that we will see God accomplish things by miraculous and/or illogical means.