2 Kings 6-8 Seeing All, Turns the Tables

April 23rd, 2 Kings 6-8

      Ahh the ax head story. Your ax head falls off into the water and Elisha throws a stick on the water and the ax head floats to the surface. Much easier than the ways I have had to find things that dropped into the water. It's reminds me of another story about axheads. It's similar story to Narcissus. That story has the ax head falling into the water and Narcissus going to the water's edge to find it. He's never seen how awesome he looks so when he sees his image in the water, he forgets about the ax head and just stares at himself. He eventually falls in the water and drowns. Thus where the idea of narcissism comes from... drowning in yourself. I'll let you tie up the issues there, I am inspired by another story even more.
       Elisha and his servant are on the run from the King of Aram. During the night the city they were hiding in was surrounded by the King's men. In the morning the servant goes to look and sees that they are surrounded and hope is lost. The servant has lost hope, but Elisha sees things differently. Chapter 6:17 "And Elisha prayed, Open his eyes, Lord, so that he may see. Then the Lord opened the servant's eyes and he looked and saw the hills full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha." 
       The in the next verse Elisha prays that blindness would fall on the King's men, they become blind, he tells them they are in the wrong city and that he will take them to the right one. He leads them to Samaria and the King of Israel(the hand of their enemy), takes away the blindness so they know they are caught!!
       Like Elisha's servant you and I don't get to see the totality of what God is doing around us. When things feel like they are hopeless, God is watching out for us.God is keeping our enemies at bay. The power of God and his angels is more powerful than our enemies. We don't simply wrestle with flesh and blood but also with principalities and powers that we can't see. The eyes of the God's servants were opened and the eyes of their enemies were shut. The enemy that thought it had it's catch... was caught! By the power of God we live our lives. I pray that we can learn to see with faith like Elisha, and when we can't to learn to trust that God sees and delivers!!