Keep Your Day Alive With our Daily Devotional

WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 2022

TEXT: 2 Kings 4:18-31

18. One day when her child was older, he went out to help is father, who was working with the harvesters.

19. Suddenly he cried out, “My head hurts! My head hurts!” His father said to one of the servants, “Carry him home to his mother.”

20. So the servant took him home, and his mother held on her lap. But around noontime he died.

21. She carried him up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, then shit the door and left him there.

22. She sent a message to her husband: “Send one of the servants and a donkey so that I can hurry to the man of God and come right back.”

23. “Why go today?” he asked. “It is neither a new moon festival nor a Sabbath.” But she said, “It will be all right.”

24. So she saddled the donkey and said to the servant, “Hurry! Don’t slow down unless I tell you to.”

25. as she approached the man of God at Mount Carmel, Elisha saw her in the distance. He said to Gehazi, “Look, the woman from Shunem is coming.

26. Run out to meet her and asked her, ‘Is everything all right with you, your husband, and your child?’” “Yes,” the woman told Gehazi, “everything is fine.”

27. But when she came to the man of God at the mountain, she fell to the ground before him and caught hold of his feet. Gehazi began to push her away, but the man of God said, “Leave her alone. She is deeply troubled, but the lord has not told me what it is.”

28. Then she said, “Did I ask you for a son, my lord? And didn’t I say, ‘Don’t deceive me and get my hopes up’?”

29. Then Elisha said to Gehazi, “Get ready to travel; take my staff and go! Quickly and lay the staff on the child’s face.”

30. But the boy’s mother said, “As surely as the lord lives and you yourself live, I won’t go home unless you go with me.” So Elisha returned with her.

31. Gehaze hurried on ahead and laid the staff on the child’s face, but nothing happened. There was no sign of life. He returned to meet Elisha and told him, “The child is still dead.”

(New Living Translation Holy Bible)

TOPIC: BE CALM IN THE STORM

During an unexpected storm, always remember the Lord over the storm. The Shunammite woman’s hope was raised with the arrival of the son promised by the man of God.

The boy grew up and started accompanying his father to the farm. But a storm arose like a ‘fever’ and the boy suddenly died! Read vs. 18-20 and note how calmly the woman handled the situation. She took the dead boy straight into the guest room of the man of God, shut the door and went to the man of God at Mount Carmel. She even refused to disclose the extent of the raging storm in her heart to her husband who might have prevented her from exercising her faith in the God of Elisha.

Her calm disposition allowed her to take control of her emotions. She knew that the only solution was to return to the channel God used to raise her hope from the beginning. “Therefore, we must always have courage to calm our emotions and control our feelings, especially in the moments of storm” (vs. 26-31).

QUESTION: How do you handle unexpected storms of life when they come your way?

PRAYER: Give me the courage, dear Lord, to be calm in the midst of life’s storms and learn to handover all into Your hands in Jesus name, Amen.