Elisha's Miracles Demonstrating God's Compassion to Ordinary People

Passage: 2 Kings 4:1- 6:7

Have you ever thought about just how quickly we would all fall into utter despair and hopelessness if it wasn’t for the reality of God’s love and presence in Jesus? I look at the utter despair of the wise writer of Ecclesiastes who had everything a man could want and he concluded, "Vanity vanity, all is vanity."  Reflect on the pagan Moabite king from last week who was so much in despair, he sacrifice his living first born son to a false idol, the highest thing this king could appeal to for help. People everywhere are directing their cries for help in all the wrong directions except to the God of the Scriptures. Despair is dark and heartbreaking but it reveals the gravity of our need. It causes in us a deep mourning that no amount of nice sunny days can alleviate and a spiritual hunger that nothing else can satiate. If the light in your heart is replaced with mourning, it’s a depression that will require God’s love to rescue.

In this week's reading, we will learn about God who reveals Himself as our Father. His compassion is an integral part of His love for humanity which bears His image and was created for an intimate relationship with Him. We learn that God's miraculous interventions in our lives provide for not merely the problems we see but also the greater problems and needs we don't see, are blind to, and wouldn't have ever understood if God did not awaken us to them.