4/11/2011 5:26:10 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: Grace pays the debt
Bible Reading
& Meditation Reference: 2Kings 4:1-7
Message of the verses: “1 ¶
Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out
to Elisha, "Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your
servant feared the LORD; and the creditor has come to take my two children to
be his slaves." 2 Elisha said to
her, "What shall I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the
house?" And she said, "Your maidservant has nothing in the house
except a jar of oil." 3 Then he
said, "Go, borrow vessels at large for yourself from all your neighbors,
even empty vessels; do not get a few. 4
"And you shall go in and shut the door behind you and your sons,
and pour out into all these vessels, and you shall set aside what is
full." 5 So she went from him and
shut the door behind her and her sons; they were bringing the vessels to her
and she poured. 6 When the vessels were
full, she said to her son, "Bring me another vessel." And he said to
her, "There is not one vessel more." And the oil stopped. 7 Then she came and told the man of God. And he
said, "Go, sell the oil and pay your debt, and you and your sons can live
on the rest.’”
When
this chapter in Dr. Wiersbe’s commentary on 2Kings began he wrote that there
would be six miracles recorded in chapters three and four of 2Kings and they
would show the grace of God, and this is the second miracle recorded.
It
should be noted that the man of God was married and had a family, and that the
man was in full time ministry with the sons of the prophets. This section also shows that people who are
in full time ministry for the Lord are not exempt from trials and
difficulties. This section also shows
that there are many times in Scripture that God uses what the person has, and
in this case the woman had a jar of oil, little in the hands of the Lord makes
much, and it is also true that the Lord is the protector and provider of
widows.
This
miracle also shows me of the gracious forgiveness that the Lord Jesus Christ
has given to me, for in the miracle it cost Elisha nothing to perform it, and
in the miracle of the new birth it cost the person nothing, but it cost the
Lord Jesus Christ His life to pay for my sins.”
Spiritual meaning for my life today: The phrase in verse six kind of jumped out at
me as I read over this passage: “There is not one vessel more.” At first I began to think in terms of money
for the widow and her sons, that if she would have had another vessel it would
have been better for her financially. I
think that the Lord had provided all that the woman needed to live on until her
sons were able to help provide for the family.
What this means to me is that I must continue to have faith in the Lord
as I walk with the Lord and not come up having no more “jars” to put my faith
into. It takes faith to be saved, which
the Lord gave to me when I became His child, and it takes faith to live out my
walk with the Lord, and I believe that if I listen to that still small voice of
the Lord that my faith will continue to grow in order to continue to fill those
“jars of oil.”
My Steps of
Faith for Today:
1.
Continue to trust the Lord to direct my path each
day, including this day that He has given to me.
2.
I give myself to the Lord in light of what He has
done for me for worship and for service.
3.
I must continue to remember that the battle is
raging on and I need the spiritual armor on.
4.
I desire to continue to learn contentment.
4/11/2011 5:47:45 AM
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