Let's close the door !

"Go in, and shut the door on you and on your sons." 2 Kings 4. 4

"Closing the door" may sometimes be a sign of selfishness, rejection of others or refusal of dialogue; so many negative and unsympathetic attitudes in a believer. However, in certain circumstances, closing one's door is not only justified, but indispensable. Elisha gives an example of this in the episode from which the verse of the day is taken.

In this narrative, a pitiless creditor wants to wrest his two sons from a widow without resources. He threatened to take them as slaves on the pretext that a debt contracted by his late husband remains unpaid. In her distress she calls the prophet Elisha to her aid.

Before undertaking anything, Elisha asks this woman to enumerate what remains in her house. His reply shows great destitution : "I, your servant, have nothing but a bottle of oil at home," that is to say, a vial reserved for the fragrant oil, the body was angrily. Elisha said to him : "Go out into the street, ask all your neighbors for containers, empty containers ; do not be content with a small number ! When you return, you will close the door on you and on your sons ; thou shalt pour the oil into all these vessels, and set aside those that are full" (2 Kings 4: 2-4, NBS). Elisha commands him to accomplish this task out of the eyes of prying eyes. Miraculously, it receives the oil in proportion to the number of containers borrowed. Through the sale of this oil, it can pay its debts and ensure its subsistence and that of its children.

To speak of spiritual destitution, we sometimes experience a kind of indigence in situations with no apparent outcome, and we find that our resources are being depleted dangerously.

Honestly acknowledging our destitution is the means for the grace of the Lord to unfold and be magnified precisely in our weaknesses or indigence, for "His power is accomplished in weakness" (2 Corinthians 12: 9).

It is behind a closed door on what could disrupt communion that God loves to do his work to recharge us. The Lord tells us in these words : "After you have closed your door, pray to your Father who dwells in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you ... Your Father knows what you need before you ask him. "(Matthew 6: 8).

Source (To pleasing the Lord)