In 2 Kings 4: 1-7, a widow came up to the prophet Elisha and was worried about paying her debts, and her two sons were about to be sold into slavery for it. So, Elisha told her to go fill up vessels with oil and he didn’t even tell her the rest of the plan, but she just went and did what he said. She was probably thinking, “how is this going to help me pay my debt?” and “how is my oil going to fill up even one vessel?” and “where am I going to get a bunch of vessels?” But the Lord knows what we need before we even need it. He made sure that her neighbors would have empty vessels, He made the oil last, and He made sure there was a demand for her supply. Sometimes, though, God will require work in order to receive His blessings. If the widow had been lazy and didn’t want to do the work Elisha told her to do, she wouldn’t have received the Lord’s blessings. Also, she had to do the work without having answers to any of her questions- she just obeyed the Lord.
This makes me think, is there something I am asking God for that I need to do some work in order to receive His blessings?
I pray that the Lord reveal any areas of disobedience in my life and that I respond to the Holy Spirit with a “yes and amen.” Just as Solomon prayed in 1 Kings 8:5-7, “May the Lord our God be with us, as He was with our fathers. May He not leave us or forsake us, that He may incline our hearts to Himself, to walk in all His ways, and to keep His commandments and His statues and His judgements, which He commanded our fathers.” This is my prayer today, amen.
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