Adversity comes in any situation

Eliseo goes from being a mere character that crosses the life of the woman indifferently to being a dear friend who stays in her house and who is used by God to grant this woman the most wonderful gift that she could ever have conceived that it was. have a child.

And according to Elisha had prophesied in the Power of the Holy Spirit that this woman would have a son a year after he gave the prophetic Word, it says that it was the same, it says that: "The woman conceived and gave birth to a son the following year at the same time Elisha had told him. "

Now in verse 18 it says that: "And the child grew up, but it happened one day that he came to his father who was with the reapers and said to his father: woe to my head, my head! And the father said to a servant: take him to his mother, and having taken him and carried his mother, he sat on her knees until noon, and died. "

Here the color of this text changes completely, because after that initial joy of having a child and probably a few years have passed because this child speaks and is already with his family as perhaps a small youngster, now he gets sick and perhaps some kind of stroke or whatever, and this child after a little, brief illness dies in his mother's arms.

And here we see something interesting. The same son that God has given this woman now passes away. One could ask: well, if God gave this child to this woman, wouldn't that constitute life insurance that this child was going to be completely protected and sealed against all kinds of diseases and accidents, blows and even death. ? one would think that things are like that, right? that when God blesses us in one way it is like definitive and 360 degrees, forever and that something negative will never come to that aspect of our life.

Here we see something and it is that adversity comes in any situation. God brought him to this woman but he was a normal child. The prophetic and miraculous act of God was to give him a son but God's miracles are specific, they are concentrated, and then now this child would have to live a journey like any other normal child, and in that case, in this blessed woman comes the adversity and misfortune.

I always tell my parishioners that we have to be prepared for when the pains come, when the setbacks come, the adversities in our life because sooner or later they will come, even in the lives of the most blessed and most protected people. God. Why? because many times God has to use those tragedies and those setbacks to unfold other dimensions of His Person, of His Power and of His relationship with us.

The fact that this child dies opens a series of events that have to illustrate another series of dimensions of the life of the spirit, and that is what adversity sometimes does, preparing us to enter even more deeply into our relationship with God.

Well, this woman, when her son dies, look at her faith. That is why character and closeness to God are so important, because when trials and difficulties come, then we have the tools and spiritual faculties that allow us to deal effectively with adversity.

This woman does not die there, does not give up, does not get depressed, does not deny God, does not freeze in the middle of her crisis, but what she does is that: "Take her child," she says. , "and takes him to the room where the man of God was staying when he was passing by, and he laid his dead son on the prophet's bed, and closing the door he went out."

Wow what a wonderful idea huh? this woman discerning through the Holy Spirit takes the problem, the dead son, and enters it, as it were, into the dimension of the Spirit. This son blessed and provided by God, she as if she intuited: it is God's responsibility.

She has enough faith to believe that God can resurrect her son, give him back, and that is why he puts him in the place where the prophet dwells, which is a great lesson for us, because when we have problems in our life, when they come difficult situations, what do we have to do? Instead of waking up, what we have to do is bring our need and bring it into the divine realm through what? of prayer, through prayer, through crying out, fasting. We have to invite God to enter or we enter our problem into the realm of grace and the Throne of God.

There are many passages where we see this idea like this, right? the apostle Paul says: "Do not be anxious about anything, but let your requests be known in all prayer and supplication." In other words: instead of being depressed, filling ourselves with sadness or anxiety, what we have to do is bring our problem before the Lord, present it to Him, cry out to Him, make Him part of our matter, in a sense make Him responsible for our answer we need.

God likes that we enter him, that we challenge him even lovingly to enter and bless our lives because when He gives us something He is consistent, so we have to believe God for great and wonderful things.

This woman's faith leads her to bring her dead son into the realm of the prophet and we will see what happens in our next meditation. God bless you.