Next Step on the Road to Somewhere!

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One day the prophets said to Elisha, “The place where we meet with you is too small.  Why don’t we build a new meeting place near the Jordan River? Each of us could get some wood, then we could build it.”  “That’s a good idea,” Elisha replied,”get started.” “Aren’t you going with us?” one of the prophets asked. “Yes, I’ll go,” Elisha answered, and he left with them. They went to the Jordan River and began chopping down trees.  While one of the prophets was working, his ax head fell off and dropped into the water. “Oh!” he shouted. “Sir, I borrowed this ax.”  “Where did it fall in?” Elisha asked. The prophet pointed to the place, and Elisha cut a stick and threw it into the water at that spot. The ax head floated to the top of the water.  “Now get it,” Elisha told him. And the prophet reached in and grabbed it.

2 Kings 6:1-7

This is a story about the power of God reaching out to a man with a simple, and some would say unimportant problem in his life.  He borrowed an ax to work on a new meeting place for the prophets, and the head of the ax flew off, into the water while the man was chopping down a tree next to the Jordan River.  Then God caused the ax head to float so he could get it back!

I know a man who would quite regularly declare that we should not bother God by praying about "small things."  His way of thinking was that we should take care of little problems and only pray about the big issues in life!

The problem with his view of things is this: No one knows how important a small decision or issue might be.  On the day a young man meets for the first time the woman who will be his wife, there are probably a number of small decisions that put him in the right place at the right time to be introduced to his future marriage partner!  

When the ax head came off in the story from 2 Kings 6, the man had no idea that what was happening would be the basis of a story to be read until the end of time in the Bible!

Every time you put one foot in front of the other, you are taking the next step on the road to somewhere!  If the somewhere of your road is a place God is calling you to be, then know that you cannot get there without taking the next small step on the road!

"Lord Jesus, I want to know where You are taking my life, but more importantly I need You to show me the next step I should take on the way.   Praise Your Holy Name now and forever! Amen."