Living With What’s Left

"What shall I do for you?” NKJV

2 Kings 4:2

From the beginning of time, the enemy of our souls has worked to get our attention on what we don’t have. Take Eve for example…of all the wonderful things available to her in the Garden of Eden, the enemy caused her to focus on the one tree that was not available to her.

In my life, the enemy has been successful with that same strategy. When our son was serving time in prison, all I could think about was him not being with us. He was not at my table for meals, he was not in our pictures, he was not at his sister’s wedding. He missed so many things, and I missed him terribly.

I continued this negative thought process until I met a woman in 2 Kings 4. She too had experienced great loss. Her husband, who was serving the Lord, died. (That certainly did not seem right, or fair). But the truth is: Bad things happen to good people.

Her loss left holes, especially in her heart. But her loss also left something else. It left her a place for a miracle, an opportunity for God to do something great in her life.

What has your loss, left?

In this story, she was asked 2 questions:

1.    What shall I do for you?

2.    What do you have?  She responded, “Nothing, but a jar of oil.”

Note: That’s what she had left, and that’s what God used!

She was given a task, and I love what the Bible records about her, “So she did as she was instructed.” And with that “act of faith” God did a miracle for her. I hope you will take a few minutes to read the rest of the story.

From that day forward she no longer focused on what she had lost...she focused on what she had left.

Debbie Stuart