A “through the bible” devotion from 2 Kings 3.
I was fiddling with my grandson’s Rubik’s cube a couple of weeks ago. I’ve never really tried to solve one. I felt pretty accomplished to get one whole side solved. However, I’ve watched videos of kids solve the whole cube in less than a minute. They make it look so easy.
So three kings, from Israel, Judah, and Edom, assemble armies to fight with Moab. But after a week, they run out of water. Are they destined for defeat? Only one way to find out. Go get Elisha. He’s in touch with God. Let’s hear what he has to say.
Elisha tells them to dig trenches, because water is coming. It won’t come from a rainstorm. It will come from the Lord. Then he adds, “This is an insignificant thing in the sight of the Lord (2 Kings 3:18). And by the way, you’ll defeat Moab, too.
We underestimate God on a regular basis, don’t we? He creates simply by speaking. Water in a desert? Easy. Walk on water? Not really that hard. Healing? You name it, he can cure it.
The Lord asked Abraham, “Is anything too difficult for the Lord?” (Genesis 18:14). It’s a rhetorical question. Nothing is challenging for the almighty.
The challenge is believing that. The challenge is believing that my prayers and petitions are significant. God wants me to ask, seek, and knock, so he can delightfully (and quite easily) give, reveal, and open up daily blessings and new morning mercies.
Waite for it... 