I'm not sure what to write about from this chapter. Its a crazy story......it does remind me of the lesson that is often shared at church. Are you trusting in God enough, that if he doesn't show up.....you will fail? That's really what's going on here. Elisha told them what was going to happen, but it seemed so unlikely that if it wasn't straight from God's hand, there's no way it could happen. The king, and his "arm prop-er" probably scoffed at Elisha's prediction. "how could this ever happen, he's just a crazy old codger"...that's what I would be saying. But, nothing is impossible if God is involved.
So, make sure God is involved in what I'm doing today. It will have a much better outcome.
tp
2 The officer on whose arm the king was leaning said to the man of God, “Look, even if the Lord should open the floodgates of the heavens, could this happen?”
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well the bible would be a lot shorter and easier to interpret if you wrote it! ha! I think you nailed the gist of this chapter in your summary. Thats the same lesson I was thinking as well, the feat was even more than the king thought God could do. Basically we can't dream big enough--he did create the universe what are we going to think of that he couldn't do?
knut