The Axe that Floated

UV 4168/10000 The Axe That Floated The man of God said, “ Where did it fall?” When he showed him the place, Elisha cut off a stick and threw it in there, and made the iron (axe head) float. 2 Kings 6 v 7 The axe was borrowed and Elisha’s disciple was desperate when he seemed to have lost the axe in the Jordan river. It is a metaphor today for the losses or threats of loss we face in our lives and work life. Elisha, the man of God accompanied his disciples when they went to the river side. A leader should be with his team when they are at work. In a crisis, they have someone to turn to. The leader should turn to God for a solution to any crisis, man-made or natural or spiritual. God can do the impossible when the human heart is in faith and alignment with His heart. He can make an iron axehead float. He can turn around impossible situations in our favour as we cry out to Him even as Elisha’s disciple cried out to him. In this covid pandemic, many people are burdened with financial debts, money owed to somebody or to the bank with nothing in sight to retrieve the losses. But when we turn to the Lord and cry out in desperation but in faith and hope, He will make the axe head float. There are some things that lie with us to do just as Elisha took a stick and asking the disciple where it fell, he threw it in the same area. We need to do all that lies with us. In the course of the last thirty four years of my professional and personal as well as familial life, there were many occasions when our borrowed axe head had fallen in the water. We cried out to the Lord and He saved us in all these situations when we faced some imminent loss or suffered the loss already. No situation is beyond redemption for us as long as we know the direction in which we are moving and we are holding onto our hope in Jesus. For an iron axe to float, it requires nothing short of a miracle. It also needed the faith of both the disciple to trigger it and Elisha’s faith in God and self to move to action. Faith obtains supernatural favour or grace for us and grace causes the miracle to happen. Tears and anxiety will turn into laughter, joy and sheer relief. The miracle happened not so that Elisha could boast of his ability or power or even faith but to boost the faith of the faithful, to vindicate the words and actions of the man of God.