A Room With A View

“And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, shut the door upon him, and went out.” (2 Kings 4:21)

In the 1986 movie A Room With a View, Helena Bonham Carter is a young engaged Englishwoman who visited Florence, Italy where the rooms had no views and met an eccentric young man who made a lasting impression. While many of us desire to have a room with a view, the best view is not of the city, ocean, mountain, the swimming pool, or even the girl next door.

The best view any room could have is the presence of God as set out in 2 Kings chapter 4. God gave the barren Shunammite woman a son, fulfilling a prophecy given to her by the prophet Elisha the year before. She was rewarded for her hospitality to Elisha, a frequent visitor to her home. One morning the boy felt severe pain in his head, and by noon he was dead.

The woman’s heart was broken About a Boy because her only son had died. Her thoughts flew on Winged Migration to the consecrated upper room in her home that she had her husband built and set aside for Elisha complete with a bed, table, chair and lampstand so he could study the Word of God. (2 Kings 4:10) Because he was a man of God, to her this room meant the presence of God, a room with a view of God Almighty.

She could have panicked like Jodie Foster and turned the room into a Panic Room, but she didn’t because she was not rocked with fear but was full of faith. Carrying her precious son to the room, the woman laid him on Elisha’s anointed bed. Then she went out, shutting the door behind her. With that act of faith, she committed her son entirely to God, and as a result she received him back to life when Elisha showed up and touched him with his entire body. This is a beautiful picture of faith in action and committment, laying our problems, our burdens, and our afflictions before God and leaving them there.

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