19 The Holy Man became angry with him: “Why didn’t you hit the ground five or six times? Then you would beat Aram until he was finished. As it is, you’ll defeat him three times only.”
There were a couple interesting verses in here like this one and the man coming back to life when his bones touched the bones of Elisha. I don't really know what to make of them. Again if Elisha asks you to do something or says something is going to happen do it cuz its coming. I don't know how the king was to know that he needed to keep striking the ground but I suspicion it was more obvious in their conversation in real life that he was to use up all the arrows. It may have felt pointless, but he should have followed Elisha's instructions as he should have known they were God inspired.
So maybe we hear instructions from God too but we don't see the point so we ignore them? Maybe we miss out on blessings just like this king did by not taking the actions he asks us to do?
knut
you're right about that.....if I really felt that God was telling me something, but it sounded absurd, I would probably pass it off as gas from the buffalo wings I had for dinner. I this chapter, and several others before it, we see that God makes the impossible happen.
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