2 Kings 4:18-25 One day when her child was older, he went out to help his father, who was working with the harvesters. Suddenly he cried out, “My head hurts! My head hurts!” His father said to one of the servants, “Carry him home to his mother.” So the servant took him home, and his mother held him on her lap. But around noontime he died. She carried him up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, then shut the door and left him there. She sent a message to her husband: “Send one of the servants and a donkey so that I can hurry to the man of God and come right back.” “Why go today?” he asked. “It is neither a new moon festival nor a Sabbath.” But she said, “It will be all right.” So she saddled the donkey and said to the servant, “Hurry! Don’t slow down unless I tell you to.” As she approached the man of God at Mount Carmel, Elisha saw her in the distance. He said to Gehazi, “Look, the woman from Shunem is coming.
When the Shunamite’s only son died, she did not weep or wail or advertise the occurrence. She quietly asked for a donkey to be prepared for her to go to Elisha. She did not even tell her husband that their child lie dead up on Elisha’s bed. She trusted. She knew she would have her son back. She knew Elisha would help her, as he had always done. She knew I would help her, through Elisha. Do you have this kind of faith? Can you handle what is going on in your world without talking about it? Do you have faith that I will provide a new car for you? Do you have faith that I will heal the nerve damage in your leg/hip/back? Do you have faith I will help you clean up the mess you have on the property and in your life? Do you have quiet, silent faith? Can you walk forward, day by day, in silence before Me, with Me, relying solely upon Me? Can you be emotionally and spiritually strong enough, mature enough, trusting enough to just abide in Me, quietly, and allow Me to work? Or do you need to talk about it? Constantly replay it? Involve others in it? What can they do? What do they add to the equation? Who is it you really need? Your “donkey” is prayer. Your “donkey” is trust. Your “donkey” is faith. Can you walk forward in quiet assurance that I am here? That I hear you? That I will provide for you? That I love you – even though right now you are not capable of loving yourself – that I love you so much I will do all you need for you? Just because you are My Child? Am I really enough for you? Or am I just another add-on? You must decide. It all rests upon that.
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