February 11, 2025, 2 Kings 6:24-33
February 11, 2025, 2 Kings 6:24-33
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Afterward Ben-hadad king of Syria mustered his entire army and went up and
besieged Samaria. 25 And there was a great famine in Samaria, as
they besieged it, until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty shekels of silver,
and the fourth part of a kab of dove dung for five shekels of
silver. 26 Now as the king of Israel was passing by on the
wall,
a woman cried out to him, saying, “Help, my lord, O king!” 27 And
he said, “If the LORD will not help you, how shall I help you? From
the threshing floor, or from the winepress?” 28 And the king asked
her, “What is your trouble?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your
son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’
29 So we boiled my son and ate him. And on the next day I said to her,
‘Give your son, that we may eat him.’ But she has hidden her son.”
30 When the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his
clothes—now he was passing by on the wall—and the people looked, and
behold, he had sackcloth beneath on his body— 31 and he
said, “May God do so to me and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of
Shaphat remains on his shoulders today.” 32 Elisha was sitting in his
house, and the elders were sitting with him. Now the king had dispatched a
man from his presence, but before the messenger arrived Elisha said to the
elders, “Do you see how this murderer has sent to take off my head? Look,
when the messenger comes, shut the door and hold the door fast against him. Is
not the sound of his master’s feet behind him?” 33 And while he was
still speaking with them, the messenger came down to him and said, “This
trouble is from the LORD! Why should I wait for
the LORD any longer?”
Here
we see that every human authority eventually faces insurmountable limits. Israel suffered the curse that God warned
them of. Do you notice how people often
blame others for problems they cause themselves? Where do place the blame for your greatest
problems? Where do you turn during
these times? As you face difficult times,
how can you prepare to meet God to assure and reassure his love for you?
Robin
Adams
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