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Day by Day Devotional - Year 2 of 5
Devotional: July 9th

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2 Kings 4:18-31

The LORD gave a child to the godly Shunamite woman. But He wants to do something even more for her than this: He wants her to know His power to raise the dead. A new baby arriving in the family is a source of joy for the parents and also for the brothers and sisters. But the new birth of that child will have still greater value; the whole of heaven will rejoice in that event. This passing from death to life, which is called conversion, is surely the greatest of all miracles! Jesus still performs it in our homes, in our own days!

Let us think about the Saviour in the home of Martha at Bethany. He was welcomed there from time to time with respect and affection, just as Elisha was with the Shunamite. But it was necessary that the family should come to know Him by a new name: "the resurrection and the life" (John 11:25). Jesus was not there at the moment when grief struck them, and His delay in coming might well have been taken for indifference. But it was necessary that faith should be tested and in our story it is so with the Shunamite. "It is well", she can say against the face of all appearances. And as for us who complain about such little things, let us not forget in all our difficulties these little words of utmost confidence, "It is well"!

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