Read: 2 Kings 2:1-14 NLT – Elijah Taken into Heaven – When the – Bible Gateway
“Then Elijah folded his cloak together and struck the water with it. The river divided, and the two of them went across on dry ground!” 2 Kings 2:8 NLT
“He struck the water with Elijah’s cloak and cried out, ‘Where is the LORD, the God of Elijah?’ Then the river divided, and Elisha went across.” 2 Kings 2:14 NLT
Out of all the miracles that are recorded in the Bible, how many do you remember? Most likely those repeated most often in books, presented on the movie screen, heard from the pulpit, and taught in a children’s Sunday School class are most remembered. Who cannot recall the miracle of Moses and the Red Sea departing in the classic movie, ‘The Ten Commandments,’ or Jesus feeding the 5,000 in the most recent ‘The Chosen’ series along with all the other miracles that are brought to life through that video production. The Bible contains many miracles throughout its pages. It’s impossible to remember them all, even most of them. These are the forgotten ones until you come across them in your daily reading and you say to yourself, ‘Oh yeah, I forgot about that one.’
In today’s text we find two of those forgotten miracles. They are easily forgotten because they pale in comparison to a much bigger miracle, and a similar one with the same results. The prophet Elijah is about to pass his mantle to Elisha for the Lord was about to usher Elijah into His presence in a whirlwind by a chariot of fire. Before the big event, the two prophets cross over the Jordan river by Elijah dividing the water with his cloak and they cross over on dry land. After Elijah is taken up to heaven, Elisha does the same thing with his master’s cloak. These two miracles are not as grand as Moses and the Red Sea departure, or Joshua’s crossing the Jordan river with 2 million people as they entered the Promised Land, but miracles just the same.
Which brings us to this point. We each may have had a major miracle in our life which we will never forget and continually praise God for, but how many smaller, much smaller miracles have God worked in our lives that are quickly forgotten. These are the events in our lives in looking back we know it was only by the miraculous hand of God at work. These too are miracles. May we continue to praise God for all His miracles in our lives and not one of them be forgotten.
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