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.
Remain
Blessed
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