Riches and Honour are with me (WISDOM); yea durable riches and righteousness. Prov 8:18
Saturday, September 8, 2012
How Would You Have Responded If You Were in Her Shoes??
(This question has been in my heart since I read the Rhapsody Of Realities (www.rhapsodyofrealities.org), daily devotional for 07 Sept 2012.)....................................................................
2 Kings 4:1-7 (MSG translation) reads..................................
"1 One day the wife of a man from the guild of prophets called out to Elisha, "Your servant my husband is dead. You well know what a good man he was, devoted to GOD. And now the man to whom he was in debt is on his way to collect by taking my two children as slaves."
2 Elisha said, "I wonder how I can be of help. Tell me, what do you have in your house?"
"Nothing," she said. "Well, I do have a little oil."
3-4 "Here's what you do," said Elisha. "Go up and down the street and borrow jugs and bowls from all your neighbors. And not just a few—all you can get. Then come home and lock the door behind you, you and your sons. Pour oil into each container; when each is full, set it aside."
5-6 She did what he said. She locked the door behind her and her sons; as they brought the containers to her, she filled them. When all the jugs and bowls were full, she said to one of her sons, "Another jug, please."
He said, "That's it. There are no more jugs."
Then the oil stopped.
7 She went and told the story to the man of God. He said, "Go sell the oil and make good on your debts. Live, both you and your sons, on what's left."................................ The Question is:How would you have responded to this instruction if you were in her shoes? What would you have done? Knowing very well that you have little oil in your house but you are told to get as many containers as you can? "For what now, sir I just told you I have little oil, please now.." your mind would have answere like this neh. Ayi, I refuse to be carnally minded, I respond from my spirit NOT my mind.The Word of God is too big for the mind,only the spirit/heart can 'get' The Word. Hahah! & Where did that oil that filled all the containers come from? eeeehhhheeeh!!!I just told you, your mind is too little for the Word, this one will blow your mind away...hahah, let me leave it there!
Have a great day!
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