Then Elisha said to the woman whose son he had brought back to life, “Get up and go, you and your house, and stay wherever you can; for The LORD is calling a famine, and it is coming on the land for seven years.
So the woman arose, and did according to the word of the man of God: she went, she and her house, and sojourned seven years in the land of the Philistines.
At the end of the seven years, the woman returned from the land of the Philistines and went to beg the king for her house and her field.
The king was talking to Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, and he said, “Please tell me all the great things that Elisha has done.
And while he was telling the king how Elisha had made a dead man live again, the woman whose son Elisha had made live again came and begged the king for her house and her field. Gehazi said, “My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha revived.
The king asked the woman, and she told him the story. Then the king gave her an eunuch, and said to him, “Make restitution for everything that belongs to this woman, with all the income from the field, from the day she left the country until now.
The king did not know the woman, but the Lord used Gehazi to introduce the woman to the king, to make the king’s heart sensitive to mercy, to give him access to favour so that the woman could be restored.
The prophet advised the woman to withdraw because famine would strike the country, but in her absence
everything was snatched from her,
everything she had was taken from her.
No doubt she took steps to recover what was hers,
Surely she had no one to defend her and fight this injustice with her.
She saw people getting rich with what was rightfully hers and no one to lift a finger to help her.
So she decided to go and see the king and, as the Lord is faithful, he found an excuse to include the woman in his blessing.
The king gave her back everything she had lost for seven years in one day,
The king ordered the restitution that the men had blocked.
God used the king to do good for the woman.
He was an instrument of justice.
And that’s what the Lord expects of us.
That we be those who distribute happiness and do good,
That we do not let injustice prevail where truth should triumph,
That we do not bear false witness out of pride.
Romans, 6:13 – Do not give your members to sin, as instruments of iniquity; but give yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and offer your members to God as instruments of righteousness.
Pray to become an instrument of Justice.
The Lord has blessed us to give them new life every day.
We, who have become righteous, have been freed from sin and have become slaves of God’s righteousness, and can be righteous by grace.
We have been completely freed from sin and have been able to become righteous.
We, the righteous, can work for his righteousness.
God’s word always shows us the way to righteousness.
We need to know how we can offer our bodies to the Lord.
It’s time to stop using our limbs for our own personal service and ambitions. We need to give ourselves over to God.
Good day to you all
Good day to you all
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