Thoughts Worth Sharing

“Hey wait for me!”

 

  During voice lessons, while preparing a little boy to sing a song about a squirrel, I asked him what the little squirrels were doing at this time of the year, and we agreed that they were gathering food for the winter. I then asked him, where they kept all of their acorns and nuts? With wide eyed innocently, he replied: “In their refrigerators”.

My husband, who was passing by remarked:” Those poor little squirrels would have a hard time getting those big refrigerators up in a tree.” 

  Upon hearing something like that, your mind (well, at least my mind) can’t help but imagine the scenario of a couple of squirrels struggling with a Kenmore or Frigidaire as they hoist it up a great tree.

We all saw cartoons as kids. We chuckled at the impossible that was happening before our eyes, and the characters that never died from the gravest of injuries. Wiley Coyote and Road Runner, Sylvester and Tweedy and others amused us often. Mallets the size of a house wielded forcefully by a tiny character would smash them flat. They would sit up, have a few stars swirl around their heads, and then their bodies would inflate and the chase resumed.

 

God is also the master of humor. He works with great power and orchestrates earth’s scenarios with perfection.

In 2Kings 13:20 we read: ¶  And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year.

21  And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulcher of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet...   

 

So we have this wonderful and humorous scenario laid out for us in God’s Holy word.

The prophet dies and is buried.  After his death, bands of Moabites began invading the land; killing, looting pillaging, and causing great terror to the people.

A man was being buried and the mourners saw a band of men coming their way. They quickly dropped the dead man into the grave of Elisha and ran. The dead fellow’s body touched the bones of Elisha and the resurrection power residing in the prophet’s bones immediately brought the man back to life and he stood up.   

 What he did after that, we are not told. We can imagine that he knew of the danger of the Moabite raiders. He could have yelled “Hey wait for me” and high tailed it out of there on the heels of his friends who might have run even faster if they’d looked behind them. 

 

  It sounds like cartoon material.  Yet it’s God’s truth and His tool for our instruction. 

We are shown that after death, the prophet’s bones still retained resurrection life.

 During Elisha’s lifetime, that life had flowed through him to others who had come back from the dead and returned to earthly life.  But this was different.  Elisha didn’t say a word.  He didn’t look particularly charming and there was nothing about him that would be appealing or inspire any faith. But the omnipotent life creating power of God remaining in the bones of His prophet, touched this unknown man while his mourners ran for their lives.

  We may not have been used by God to raise someone from the dead, yet Christ lives and dwells within us. His Spirit fills us and the fruits of our relationship with God should emanate from every pore.

  Even without our words, and without great charm, the Spirit and power of our great God should walk with us and affect the lives of those around us.

  We walk among the spiritually dead. The raiders of our enemy attack ,distract and destroy those that we see every day.   We may not have the opportunities that we would like to share our faith with them. But the resurrection power of Christ dwells in us. 

 

  We are alive spiritually. We have eternal life.  Let us walk in that new life in Christ, and may His presence in us awaken the dead around us and instill their hearts a longing for a relationship with their creator and new life in Him.

 

2Cor 4:3     But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:

   ~ Rosemary