F.B. Meyer Commentary on 2 Kings 7:1-20

The following is an encouraging but stern excerpt from F. B. Meyer’s Devotional Commentary on 2 Kings 7:1-20:

There is a sore famine just now over the whole world, a famine of God’s Word.  For some years the Church has felt its growing severity, but there are two classes within her borders:  they who believe that God can open the windows of Heaven and pour down such a blessing that there will not be room to receive it (Malachi 3:10); and those who, like the unbelieving courtier, jeer at the hope of the saints.  Let us answer the skeptic’s “Can God?” by the positive achievements of faith.

When God sends blessings to His people, He rarely takes methods that we might expect.  Rather, He chooses the weak and foolish things, yea, those that are not, to confound those that are, so as to prevent flesh from glorying in His presence.  Whenever, in the first glint of the morning light, you discover the divine answer to your prayers, in all its plenteous abundance, do not keep the good news to yourself lest punishment overtake you, but be sure to bear the glad tidings to others.  When it is a day of good tidings, be sure to act upon them in faith and patience, counting it a sin to hold your peace.

…As the the result of our Lord’s victory at Calvary, the roads—north, south, east, and west—have been trodden by your fleeing foes and are strewn with spoil.  But beware lest in the day of the Lord’s deliverance you see with your eyes but are unable, through unbelief, to partake (Luke 13:28).  Man’s unbelief cannot hinder God’s purpose, but it excludes the unbeliever, who perishes amid abundance.