The Miracle Worker“‘Tell me, what do you have in the house?’ And she said, ‘Your maidservant has nothing in the house but a jar of oil.’” (2 Kings 4:2) The widow in Second Kings was unable to pay her debts after her husband died. Her creditors decided to take her two sons as slaves for payment of the obligations. She pleaded for help with the only man of God she knew. Elisha instructed her to go and collect all the empty jars from her neighbors. When the jars were collected, he instructed her to pour what little oil she had into the jars. The oil was more than enough to fill the jars. In fact, there was more oil than jars to fill. She was then instructed to go sell the oil and pay her debts, and she and her sons live on the rest. Like many of us, the widow believed she had no resources to meet her need, but Elisha said she had more than enough. She did not see that jar of oil as a resource, and it did not become a resource until it was mixed with faith. Her needs were met when her faith was mixed with the business of selling what she had in order to receive her needed cash flow. There was so much she was able to pay off her debts and live on the money from the sale of oil. In fact, the only limit to her income was how many jars she could collect or borrow, for she had more oil than OPEC. With her faith, the widow was the Bible's version of The Miracle Worker and she, not Anne Bancroft, was truly a heroine. We must remember that God works through business or commerce to provide for our needs. It is wrong to place total trust in business without faith in God. God often requires simple obedience to an act that seems ridiculous to the carnal mind like the story of the widow with the oil. It is faith mixed with action, it is the convergence of the spiritual with the material that get God's attention. Copyright © 2002 Eddy Ministries. All rights reserved. Subscribe/Unsubscribe:
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