April 11, 2013 – 2 Kings 8

You kind of wonder if Hazeal would have murdered the king if Elisha hadn’t said anything.  It could be seen as somewhat of a self fulfilling prophesy.  Hazeal wasn’t thinking about anything like that until Elisha put the thoughts into his head.  Once that happened, he thought, I could be king and why am I not king and finally I will just take it.

I also thought it was interesting that God had a 7 year plan having the woman leave for 7 years just to come back when she was being talked about.  Makes you wonder about what is going on in your life right now and how God maybe using it to develop something that isn’t going to come to fruition for another 5-10 years.  God is a patient God and calls us to be that as well.  But boy it is tough.

http://www.ldolphin.org/kings.html