2 Kings 6:5

It was just an old rag by the side of the interstate, but it was an answer to prayer.

We were a long way from home and trying to get back for a funeral when the car engine started heating up. After a couple stops at auto repair places, we thought that it was fixed. I carried extra water in the car just in case. Things were going ok and it looked like I was going to get back in plenty of time for the funeral that evening.

Then again, the heat gauge started to climb, and we pulled over on the interstate. I needed to release the radiator cap to let the pressure off so I could put more water in it, but it was just too hot, and I did not even have a rag to hold the cap with. “Lord,” I prayed, “Please help me to make it back in time for the funeral.” Then I saw a mechanic’s rag on the road beside the car. That rag was God’s answer to my prayer.

I put water in the car, and we had to stop and do it again about every fifty miles. Each time, I used that old rag. I made it back just in time for the funeral. God is faithful, and He cares about those personal situations we find ourselves in.

In the text above, a man was chopping a tree when the ax head flew off and went into the water? He was upset because he had borrowed the ax. The prophet Elisha took a stick and threw it into the water and caused the ax head to float so it could be retrieved. Call it what you wish, but I believe it was a miraculous event that reminds us that God is interested in our daily lives. Whatever is going on in your life today, know this: JESUS CARES.

“Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take;
The clouds ye so much dread
Are big with mercy, and shall break
In blessings on your head.
Judge not the Lord by feeble sense,
But trust him for his grace;
Behind a frowning providence
He hides a smiling face.”