Elijah and Elisha [Paperback]

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Elijah was a man of like passions with us, but he was a mighty man of God. Why? Elisha was wonderful in a different way. How?

Excerpt- In 2 Kings 3 we have Elisha ministering to the necessities of kings; in 2 Kings 4:1-7 he ministers to a widow and her sons, for there is room in the divine compassions for both the exalted and the lowly. Remarkably both Elijah and Elisha had dealings with a widow, and in each case a little oil in a vessel constituted an important item in their worldly possessions.

“Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear Jehovah: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondsmen” (2 Ki. 4:1). A pitiful story is here, a story suggestive of the meditations which drove Asaph to the very verge of infidelity (Ps. 73). That the godly should suffer while the ungodly prosper has frequently been a sore puzzle to tried hearts. In the present case the widow laid emphasis upon the fact that her husband feared Jehovah, yet he had been snatched from her by death, with no remainder but debts, slavery for her children being the only possible result, so far as the eye could see. Unbelief is apt to cry in such circumstances, “All these things are against me” (Gen. 42:36); faith quietly says, “We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to purpose” (Rom. 8:28).

The greater the emergency, the greater the opportunity for God to show Himself on behalf of His people. When the men of Israel magnified the prowess of the nations of Canaan, Joshua and Caleb, true men of faith, said, “They are bread for us; Jehovah is with us; fear them not” (Num. 14:9). Bread indeed! for every difficulty surmounted by faith in God yields strength and nourishment to the soul. Our wonder-working God is able to make the eater yield meat, and the strong one sweetness (Judg. 14:14). It is a great reality to have to do with God. “He that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him” (Heb. 11:6).

Table of Contents

1. Call to Service, The

2. Double Portion, The

3. New Cruse, The

4. Scoffers Judged

5. Three Kings, The

6. Pot of Oil, The

7. Shunammite, The

8. "Death in the Pot"

9. Firstfruits, The

10. Naaman, the Syrian

11. Is It a Time to Receive?

12. Iron Did Swim, The

13. God and the Kings

14. Chariots of Fire

15. Lesson of War, The

16. Four Lepers, The

17. Returned Shunammite, The

18. Ministers of Wrath

19. Lesson of the Arrows, The

20. Life Out of Death