II Kings 6 contains that Elisha encounter with his servant who became afraid when, retrieving the morning paper in the driveway, he looked up to find the entire property was surrounded by a large enemy force.
Yikes!
Yet, Elisha simply prayed that the servants eyes be opened to reality....there are more of us than them.
I like how Francis Schaeffer frames it, To the young man this must have seemed pretty cold comfort at that moment. But very quickly it became a realistic comfort, an actuality: "And Elisha prayed and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw; and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha."
At that moment the young man did not have any more problems!
From our point of consideration, however, the significant thing is that the prayer was not that something would come. It was already there. The only difference was that the young man's eyes had to be opened to see what Elisha already saw.
The supernatural was not something far off, it was there. All the young man needed was to have his eyes opened to see it.
Mighty words Mr. Schaeffer points out for us this morning! Mighty words. It appears we may be wishing help would get here when our prayers should be more properly based upon the need for our eyes to be opened to see the help already standing by.
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