God Protects His Own - 2 Kings 6-10

God Protects His Own

2 Kings 8:1-6

Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, “Arise, and depart with your household, and sojourn wherever you can, for the LORD has called for a famine, and it will come upon the land for seven years.” So the woman arose and did according to the word of the man of God. She went with her household and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years. And at the end of the seven years, when the woman returned from the land of the Philistines, she went to appeal to the king for her house and her land. Now the king was talking with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, “Tell me all the great things that Elisha has done.” And while he was telling the king how Elisha had restored the dead to life, behold, the woman whose son he had restored to life appealed to the king for her house and her land. And Gehazi said, “My lord, O king, here is the woman, and here is her son whom Elisha restored to life.” And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed an official for her, saying, “Restore all that was hers, together with all the produce of the fields from the day that she left the land until now.”

God is interested in those that are His.   This story is a testament to God’s care and concern over those He selects as His own.   Years earlier God used Elisha to resurrect this woman’s son.  He also warned the woman to flea from the famine in the land.  Now, at exactly the right time, God was putting Elisha’s servant in the exact place, at the exact time, to make sure the woman’s land was restored to her.   God puts people in the right place to whisper the right things in their ears.   This is truly an example of God turning the hearts of the king:

Proverbs 21:1
The king's heart is a stream of water in the hand of the LORD;
he turns it wherever he will.

God moves the hearts of kings and people to care for those He loves.   We ought not worry about life.  God has us in the plan of His hand and can whisper in the ears of kings to keep us from famine and restore to us what we previously thought we lost.