“Then a lord on
whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if
the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said,
Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.”
2 Kings
7:2
Elisha responded to the threat of his captures
concerning the famine, clarifying the famine would end in a single day (2 Kg 7:14-16); the passage shows the doubtful response
of the messenger. Man's point of extremity is God's opportunity of making his
own power to be glorious: His time to appear is when their strength is gone.
Unbelief is a sin by which men greatly dishonor and displease God, and deprive
themselves of the favours the Father designed for them. Such will be the
portion of those that believe not the promise of eternal life; they shall see
it at a distance, but shall never taste the goodness thereof. No temporal
deliverances and mercies will in the end profit the sin of unbelieving and
doubt, unless they are led to repentance by the goodness of God. For His children, sometimes we become
preoccupied with problems when we should be looking for opportunities. Instead
of focusing on the negatives, we should develop an attitude of gratitude and expectancy
in the promises of the Father.
HSAY…Todd
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