God is nauseated by lukewarm people

We are talking about the encounter between Elisha and this widow who approaches the prophet and presents the case of her husband who has died, a servant of God. There are creditors who come to take their children to pay the debt that this man left, and the prophet Elisha sends her to look for vessels in the neighborhood.

She only has a little oil and a vessel, and when this woman brings the vessels, having sent her children to look for them in different parts of the neighborhood, he tells her to start pouring oil into the vessels, and the wonderful miracle occurs, The oil miraculously multiplies, fills all the vessels that this woman has available, and then the prophet tells her: now with these vessels go, sell the oil and live you and your children, and pay the creditors.

God has a purpose for which he records this message in His Scripture and it is: to give us certain lessons of life and faith, to teach us how to wage war, how to counteract tragedies and trials, and the difficulties of life, how to use principles of faith. that this woman uses in this passage. And we by studying these passages are supposed to extract the teachings and apply them to our own lives. I pointed out one of those teachings in the last message where we saw this woman cry out, and that is such an important principle that it is good to insist on it a little more.

I mentioned the case of King Hezekiah who when God tells him: Get ready because you are going to die Hezekiah weeps bitterly, complains before God and asks for an extension of life, and God is moved by the cry of this righteous king and makes him return his prophet, and adds 15 years to his life by giving him firm proof as he did with Gideon that He had every intention of helping him in his need.

And it occurred to me after the first text, the first message, another case of someone who also cried out like this in a bitter, insistent way and God honored his cry, and it was Ana. In the Old Testament we know that Ana was sterile, she could not have children, and had a terrible desire to be a mother. And Anna appeared in the temple, and the Bible says that she wept bitterly, she poured out her soul before God asking the Lord for a son. Ana wanted children so much that she felt that she would die if she couldn't have a child, even though she had a husband who loved her and everything else but she wanted to be a mother.

How many of us many times want to do something great for God, we want to make a difference in the world? We feel that God has rewarded us with a message, a call, a desire to serve Him, to be spiritual mothers or fathers and we find ourselves without the tools or the resources to do so. The Bible says very clearly that we have to come before the Throne of Grace, we have to cry out before the Lord, we have to fast and pray, and cry, and protest respectfully before the Lord and ask the Lord to make us fruitful and allow us to give life .

That desire to serve the Lord has to be something more than just a vague and lukewarm desire, it has to be something that consumes our lives, it has to be something that makes peace impossible for us. When we cry out to God in this way and present our cause before the Lord, especially when it comes to giving life to Him, serving Him, doing good things in favor of the Kingdom of the Lord, God will answer in one way or another.

We know the story that Hannah came to the temple and was so eager for children, and so bitter about her infertility that High Priest Eli, a man who had lost spiritual vision and was already simply a religious official, lacked spiritual discernment. He saw her there in the shadows of the sanctuary and thought she was drunk. His bitterness and tears were so terrible that he approached her and said: "Woman, digest your wine, do not enter the temple drunk." And she very humbly replied: sir, it is not that I am drunk, it is that I feel destroyed by the fact that I cannot have children and I have asked the Lord to impregnate me.

Eli at least still had a little bit of discernment and spiritual passion and he understood the spiritual passion of this woman, and he said: "Well, let it be done according to your faith" and he let her go, and at that moment Ana received from God's ability to conceive and have children. And not only did he have a son but he was not just any son, the great prophet Samuel, a man of God.

And not only did she have Samuel but later she had other children as well because God opened her womb. When God responds, responds in a big way and blesses extraordinarily, the multiplication then gives loaves and fishes for multitudes, and there are still and there are plenty of leftovers to give to others also because that is how God works, this woman was fertilized far beyond what she I expected.

And how interesting it is that Hannah, incidentally, donated her son to the Lord's cause and consecrated him for the service of Jehovah, and Samuel was taken as an apprentice to a prophet, a priest and God chose him, spoke to him and from there came one of the most powerful ministries that the history of mankind has known, the great prophet Samuel, because God is like that. With generous and passionate souls God does anything. We have to cry out to the Lord.

The world is full of lukewarm people, God is nauseated by lukewarm people. We have there the story of Laodicea, the church, one of the churches of the Apocalypse that God tells them: "Because you are neither hot nor cold I will vomit you out of my mouth. I wish you were hot or cold." God loves determined people. God loves people who say as Esther said: "If I perish, let me perish" and they take their key from there and rush to tear the request they have out of the Kingdom.

That is why the Bible also says that the Kingdom proceeds with force, with violence and the violent, the mighty seize it. It is that God loves determined people, God loves clear people who cry out to Him like this widowed woman cried out to Elisha because she had a great need. I stop here because it is important for us to remember this: God is moved by determined people and the Bible is full of determined people who cry out to God or step into the crowd and tear a blessing from the Lord as did the woman with the flow of blood.

I want to be one of those determined people who does not accept not as an answer, but rather to hold onto the skirts of God and as Jacob told the angel: I will not leave you until you bless me. Hopefully that's your attitude on this day. Ask the Lord to make you a mighty and courageous warrior, and God will honor your requests. We will continue our study in our next meditation.