Day 7: Warrior Angels
Read: 2 Kings 6.8-23
The king of Aram has been waging war on Israel, but every
time he tries to attack, the Israelite prophet Elisha hears from God telling
him where the attack will fall. Eventually The king of Aram realises that
Elisha is the fly in the ointment, and resolves to get rid of him. He sends a
large and well-equipped army to surround the prophet’s house in the middle of
the night. When Elisha’s servant gets up in the morning, he is (rightly!)
terrified at the sight of all these soldiers, hell-bent on eradicating Elisha,
and presumably him as well.
Elisha, though, does not seem afraid, and asks God that his
servant’s eyes should be opened. “Do not
be afraid,” Elisha says to him “for
there are more with us than there are with them.” The servant sees
that the mountains all around them are
filled with an even greater army, the army of God, with all its horses and
chariots of fire.
·
Imagine
you are the servant in this story. What might it feel like suddenly to see that
you are not alone and that “there are more with us than there are with them”?
·
When you
are going through difficult times, what sources of strength outside you do you
have to call on?
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