2 Kings 4:42-44 – A little in God’s hand becomes much

God has the capacity to do however little we offer to Him to meet the needs of many. We were told in John 6 how Jesus fed the 5,000 men with a boy’s five loaves and two fish. Here in 2 Kings 4:42-44, it was said that a man came from Baal-shalishah, bringing twenty loaves of bread to Elisha. He baked them from his first fruit harvest of barley and fresh ears of grain. This probably took place in Gilgal where Elisha had come to visit the school of the prophets.

Elisha then instructed that the loaves be given to the people that they may eat. But the attendant felt that it was not enough to feed everyone. So he exclaimed, “What, will I set this before a hundred men?” But Elisha insisted that he should give them to the people to eat, prophesying that they would eat and still have leftovers. So he obeyed and gave to the people to eat and as Elisha had said, there were indeed leftovers.  

Lesson: what happened here underscores again that God’s supply is always greater than demands. That is his economy. So from here, we see that there is no resource too small that the Lord is not able to multiply and meet the needs of many. All we need is to offer whatever we have, in total surrender to Him. Our resource when offered to God can meet more people than we can ever imagine. We must not be limited by our small thinking. The attendant whom the bread was handed over, thought that the amount was only good for less than a hundred. But Elisha’s faith was large, he knew that the 20 loaves would be more than enough to feed the multitude and still had leftovers. Nothing is too little when it is offered to God. In the same line of thoughts, no one is too insignificant that God cannot use. What is required is a life yielded in total surrender and He can do with us what we cannot even imagine. Question is: Have we surrendered?