While cutting timber beside the Jordan, one of Elisha’s companions lost an iron ax head in the water. He cried out to the prophet because it was borrowed. Elisha asked where it had fallen, threw a stick into that spot, and the iron floated. The man reached out and recovered it. God’s power had met him in an ordinary working day, at the very thing troubling him. We sometimes hesitate to bring our everyday concerns before God, as though a broken tool or a responsibility we cannot meet is too small for His attention. This borrowed ax gives us reason to bring those burdens honestly. The God who rules the river also cares about the man beside it.
“And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he shewed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither; and the iron did swim.” —2 Kings 6:6
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