the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 2 of 5
2 Kings 6:1-17
"The place where we dwell is too strait for us" the sons of the prophets declare to Elisha. That is what one sometimes hears said on the subject of Christianity. In the eyes of the world, the life of the Christian does indeed appear narrow: he deprives himself of so many things. If we should reason in this way, it is because our gaze is directed too low. Truly heaven in all its vast extent is before us.
The little incident which follows is moving in its simplicity. Elisha is as much concerned to restore a tool to the one who is using it as he is to restore a dead child to its mother by raising it to life. Just so do we see the Lord of glory washing the feet of His disciples, and preparing a meal for them (John 13:5; John 21:13). Nothing is too small for the Lord Jesus. Each one of us has surely experienced this already.
War now begins between Israel and the Syrians. But there is a third army nearby, the existence of which is known only to the prophet. These are the heavenly warriors: angels whom God has set like a wall of fire around His servant (see Psalms 34:7). Eyes of faith are needed to see them. Just as in the case of Elisha here, so Jesus in Gethsemane directed the thoughts of His disciple, Peter, to the twelve legions of angels which His Father would have made available to Him if He had wanted to ask for them (Matthew 26:53).
