Lost and Found

I’ve been reading about the life of Elisha these past few days and want to share some of the insight that I have been learning/taking away from his life over the next few posts. 

Elisha was a prophet, chosen by Elijah Himself. Elijah did some awesome things, but Elisha did awesomesauce things. I hope you’ll learn a bit more about this man of God over the next few days. 

For today’s lesson, lets look at a small, but important miracle preformed by Elisha. It comes to us from 2 Kings 6:

One day the group of prophets came to Elisha and told him, “As you can see, this place where we meet with you is too small. 2 Let’s go down to the Jordan River, where there are plenty of logs. There we can build a new place for us to meet.”

“All right,” he told them, “go ahead.”

3 “Please come with us,” someone suggested.

“I will,” he said. 4 So he went with them.

When they arrived at the Jordan, they began cutting down trees. 5 But as one of them was cutting a tree, his ax head fell into the river. “Oh, sir!” he cried. “It was a borrowed ax!”

6 “Where did it fall?” the man of God asked. When he showed him the place, Elisha cut a stick and threw it into the water at that spot. Then the ax head floated to the surface. 7 “Grab it,” Elisha said. And the man reached out and grabbed it.” (NLT2)

The miracle here was that Elisha actually made a huge hunk of metal float! 

Why is this significant? Well, it was lost, and it was hard to make a new meeting place without the proper tools…. 

Something was lost. Specifically, here, the axe head. It belonged to somebody else and it was gone. The workers called out to Elisha to tell him that it was gone, Elisha threw a stick in the water and the lost axe head came back to its owner. 

So, where am I going with this today? 

We have all lost something. (a job) we have all lost someone. (a dear friend) 

Whatever we have lost—big or small— I believe this story is in the Bible to teach us that it is ok to ask God for help. 

Elisha you remember, was a prophet, he “worked for” and “spoke for” God. He was His representative. 

If you've lost your BFF, you can call out God. 

If you've lost your job, you can call out to God. 

If you’ve received news that shook you to your core, you can call out to God. 

If you lost your meal ticket, you can call out to God. 

If you lost your car keys, you can call out to God. 

Do you get where I am going with this? 

You can call out to God! 

Peter reminded us of this truth in 1 Peter 5:7: “Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you.” (NLT)

Don’t miss that friend. God wants you to call out to Him…. with big things; with small things. If anything is concerning you; if anything is troubling you, God wants you to call out to Him, because— and don’t miss this— HE CARES FOR YOU! 

If you've lost something— and at some point in time, we all will loose something— or someone— that is near and dear to us— this story is in the Bible to remind us that God wants us to cry out to Him, and ask for His help. 

Maybe He will bring that lost item back to us; maybe He won’t. 

Maybe He will give us something better than what was lost. Maybe He won’t.  

But He will fill you with His presence, and that will be infinitely better than anything you may have lost. 

If you have lost something, go to Him. Ask Him to help you find it. Or at the very least, ask Him to fill you.