Seize the Moment – Day 843
Something Greater than Elisha is Here!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Friday, July 8.
My youngest daughter enjoys the Where’s Waldo books. Recently, she showed me her skills in finding Waldo, and as I reflected upon her joy in doing so, I thought of how God finds joy in us finding His Son on every page of the Bible.
Elisha the prophet was a powerful man of God. In fact, his ministry reads like a chapter from the Gospels of Jesus Christ, with the miracles he performs for the good of the people of Israel. Elisha performs the following five miracles in 2 Kings 4:
- The Multiplication of the Widow’s Oil in verses 1-7.
- The Prominent Woman’s Infertility in verses 8-17.
- The Resuscitation of the Shunammite’s Son in verses 18-37.
- The Healing of the Stew in verses 38-41.
- The Multiplication of the Meal in verses 42-44.
Elisha shows us the heart of God in these miracles. He protected a widow’s household by multiplying the oil and providing their daily bread. He gave the Shunammite the desire of her heart – a son, and then revived him after a farming accident. He removed poison, then multiplied the food to protect and provide.
If John the Baptist was the Elijah who was to return, then wouldn’t it make sense that the successor to Elijah would so clearly foreshadow the Messiah, Jesus Christ. Something greater than Elisha is here. In saying this, I am alluding to Jesus’ words from Matthew 12:6, 39-42, “something greater than the temple [Jonah and Solomon] is here.” It is in that tradition of the words of Jesus that when I read the story of Elisha, I clearly see that Jesus Christ fulfills his ministry – He is greater!
Seize the moment and find Jesus in your life today; He’s there wanting to be found so that He can work a miracle in your life!