What's in Your Wallet?

Daily Scripture Threshing for Monday,October , 2021

Today’s Text: 2 Kings 4:1-11

Key Verses: 2 Kings 4:2 (NIV) “Elish to her, “How can I help you? Tell me, what do you have in your o“Your servant has nothing there at all,” she said, “except a small jar of olive oil.”

You have possibly seen and have been excited by the ubiquitous Capital One campaign in which different celebrities ask the question: “What's In Your Wallet?” The financial lending company uses the mantra to draw interest, and assure financial security, purchase power, and prosperity. I, in particular, love the commercial by Samuel L. Jackson. I have always been fond of his art. However, I see a rather dangerous “what’s in your wallet” pattern in which some gospellers allude to the text of today’s scripture to achieve just the same goals as the Capital One TV commercial. They cast shadows of proof-texting upon the word of God and employ the scripture to say whatever they want it to say rather than what it is originally saying.

No doubt, the origin of the narrative clearly demonstrates the power of God to bless and provide for His own. God specializes in turning bitterness into sweetness; cursing into blessings, darkness into light, nothing into great things, and poverty into prosperity. He is a miracle-working God, but not a magician. He does not work His miracles in the manner in which His word has been misapplied for selfish reasons. Elijah m’s question was coming from the background of his different unexplainable and yet undeniable experience of divine provisions. He has been fed by the most unlikely creatures: ravens. He has been in the supply of water by a most unlikely source during draught: brook of Cherith. His question, “what’s in your house” was a kind of “are you the one or should I look for another” to confirm the trend. Being a widow does not pre-fit her as the right vessel. She needed to be the right person: the unlikely vessel. It seems to the prophet that some widows are wealthy and can provide for their homes.

So, what do you have is not a prophet’s gimmick to extract offering like some do today; it is a prophetic strategy to confirm the system of God's provision through the use of unlikely vessels. God can still use and bless her more if she were rich as long as that’s in keeping with His determinate counsel. Therefore, friends, what's in your wallet? Do you feel broke and hopeless? God works through sorest poverty and turns the darkest of days into a glorious morning. The blessing and lessons in this story are not in the provision for the prophet or the ceaseless flow. It is in obeying divine promptings. Whatever you do, whether in giving or receiving, eating or drinking; the glory of God must be our leading motivation. Christ's great wonders are divine favor done to those who receive and follow Him. The blessing of unfailing cruse and the ceaseless oil was because the woman believed and obeyed. “If you are willing and obedient,” according to Isaiah 1:19, “you will eat the good things of the land.”

Quote for the Day: Any selfish prophet who seeks to take advantage of God's poor people are worse than Shylock. Yes, they do not seek the pound of flesh, or take the widiw’s sons; but they are after her cruise of oil.” (Simon Olatunji)

Prayer: Dear Lord, please and showW me the pathway of obedience ubu passing day. I desire to follow you all the days of my lifellll, in Jesus' name. Bu uhAmen.

With all my love and prayers,

Rev Simon Wale Olatunji, Ph.D

The Darling Bishop (DaBishop)

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