2 Kings 7

How apt are we to be discouraged with seeming impossibilities: how do our hearts die within us when things go cross to our sense and reason. We are apt to say as that prince (2 Kings 7:1-2), If the Lord would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? It was a time of famine,…

When they offered incense or sacrifice acceptable to God, they were not to offer it with common fire — ordinary fire kindled by themselves from sparks struck from stones — but it was to be fire from heaven, taken from the altar (Leviticus 9:24). This was kept continually burning…

Therefore she said, 'If I perish, I perish.' And so the lepers reasoned in a desperate case (2 Kings 7:3-4): 'If we go into the city we are sure to die, for the famine is there; if we sit still, we also die. Come, let us fall into the hands of the Assyrians — if they save us ali…

And it is said (Numbers 11:33), when those people had gotten quails: That while the flesh was yet between their teeth, before it was chewed; the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord struck them with a very great plague. And that nobleman who saw plenty…

It is the want of faith that keeps good things from us; Christ could not do many things among them, because of their unbelief (Mark 6:5). Unbelief kept Moses and Aaron out of the promised land (Numbers 20:12), and the prince from tasting of the plenty (2 Kings 7, last verse). Al…

Be not so desperate as to stand so aloof off from the grace of Christ, make not such desperate conclusions as these be; you find such inclinations to the world, but is not he that made the world, greater than the world? Indeed if you still go on in that course, because you think…

When God's prophet told of this wonderful work that God would do the very next day, he could not believe it; he said, though the Lord should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? And he saw it with his eyes, but was not to eat of it; he was trodden down in the gate (2 K…

The first act of faith is that whereby a man having been formerly reduced to extremities and impossibilities within himself, looks upon God as omnipotent, and so able to save; as merciful, and in Christ reconcilable, and so likely to save if he is sought to. Hereupon grows a sec…

They measured God by their own reason, and charged God with that impotency which they found in themselves. This was the sin of that noble man who attended upon the king of Israel in the great famine at Samaria; when the prophet foretold a marvelous plenty which should suddenly c…