Today’s Reading: 2 Kings 13; 2 Kings 14; 2 Chronicles 25; 2 Timothy 3
Scripture: 2 Kings 13:18
18 Then he said, "Take the arrows," and the king took them. Elisha told him, "Strike the ground." He struck it three times and stopped. 19 The man of God was angry with him and said, "You should have struck the ground five or six times; then you would have defeated Aram and completely destroyed it. But now you will defeat it only three times."
Observation: It's a great story. And it illustrates a great truth. Notice that Elisha tells Jehoash, King of Israel, to take some arrows and hit the ground with them. The king does tap-tap-tap and stops. Elisha rebukes him. His choosing to fulfill Elisha's instruction with a token response will cost him. His future victories will be few because he did the tap-tap-tap. I wonder what victories have be forfeited by people who just didn't go for it with gusto when God requested something of them. I wonder if we limit God's expression of victory through us when we worship with less than total abandon. I wonder.
Application: I think it makes sense to give it everything we've got when we do anything for God. We should be passionate, intense, intentional, sold out, radical, demonstrative, and extreme, with no-holds-barred. What would be unleashed by such a manner of living? It would probably blow us away!
Prayer: Lord, help us to get out of our comfort zone and go for it. I ask for unleashed and unfettered worship and enthusiastic prayer and praise that raises the roof -- literally taking the lid off the blessings that we can receive. Help us, Lord -- we need a breakthrough!
This I pray in Jesus’ name, Amen.
1 comment:
The king should have known that if the Prophet was the one telling him to do it, it had prophetic significance. This also underscores how little we all take seriously the prophetic voice of the Lord to us, even when He speaks through actions.
It also sobers me to think that God wants me to be outrageously passionate and all I can give Him is my bored indifference at times.
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