IT IS WELL!

   Elisha meets a man and wife from Shunem.  He often passed by their home and they would invite Elisha to come into their home and have a meal.  The husband and wife were talking one day, and obviously, she saw something in Elisha that caused her to think that Elisha was a "holy man of God passing by us continually."  They decided to build an upper room and they asked Elisha if he would come and stay there with them.  They provided the usual amenities that one would have to have to rest and sleep.  Elisha came with his servant, Gehazi to stay there. 2 Kings 4

Elisha is so grateful for the provision of the room that he desires to give the Shunamite women a blessing.  He announces to her that since she has no child, that she will bear a son in the coming year.  She has the child as Elisha has spoken.  

Time passes and the child is now a young man and is working with his father in the fields.  The son cries out to his father,  "My head, my head." The son is carried by the servant to his mother.  The son dies in her arms.  The rest of this story is so rich and such an oblivious miracle.  She places the son on Elisha's bed and closes the door behind her.  She tells her husband that she is going to the "man of God" and he wonders why.  Her only reply, "It will be well."  She saddles a donkey and takes a servant and goes in search of Elisha at Mount Carmel.  Elisha sees her coming in the distance and sends Gehazi to ask if everything is well with her husband and child.  Her answer to Gehazi, "It is well."  She has only traveled 25 miles to find him from Shunem to Mount Carmel by donkey!

This is twice in a dire circumstance that the wife and mom has made the statement, "It will be well" or "It is well."  All of my logic questions, how can it be well that she lays a dead son on a bed and when asked how her husband and son are doing, she replies, "It is well"? Scripture does not reveal if she is a Jehovah follower or that she has a supernatural faith.  How does she know it will be well? However, I am willing to believe that there is a "take-a-way" for today from the passage even at this point of the reading.  As I am being pressed and squeezed  by circumstances and am some 3,000 years removed, I confess that I am a Christ follower. I have the Holy Spirit indwelling and empowering me. I have the full revelation of the Word of God to teach me to live by faith.  To think, that I still have a tendency to have fear and doubts, and have to say,"It is well" or "It will be well" out of obedience and trust for faith to grab hold of it, for God to intervene, and to make it so.  The woman was not privy to all of the blessings that God has so graciously bestowed on me and yet she speaks, "It is well." She seemed to realize that the circumstance was dire and desperate, yet she was resolute in her statement.  She had not read the rest of the Holy Record to see the conclusion or had access to it.  I am reminded of Romans 4:17 in speaking of Abraham having a son, "As it is written, 'A father of many nations have I made you' in the sight of Him whom he believed, even God, who gives life to the dead and calls into being that which does not exist."  I am willing to say, "It is well."  Not to ignore what is, but I am willing to stand in faith and speak, it is so and I will trust YOU "to accomplish what concerns me."  Psalm 138:8a   Forever learning!  In process, still!  #IHAVETHREESONS