2Ki 7:1 Then Elisha said, “Hear the word of the LORD. Thus says the LORD: ‘Tomorrow about this time a seah of fine flour shall be sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, at the gate of Samaria.’ ”
2Ki 7:2 So an officer on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God and said, “Look, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, could this thing be?” And he said, “In fact, you shall see it with your eyes, but you shall not eat of it.”
Negativity is a tendency to be downbeat, disagreeable, and skeptical. It’s a pessimistic attitude that always expects the worst. Negative outcomes are bad outcomes like losing a game, getting a disease, suffering an injury or getting something stolen ( Vocabulary. com)
The gentleman referred to as ” the officer in whose hands the king leaned” must have been a principal figure. For a king to lean on him, his was a honorable post.
However, he did not believe the words of the man of God. To make the matters worse , he even doubted God ; that even if God would open the windows of heaven and make the grains to rain like rain, such a thing would never happen. The servant of the Lord told ” in fact you shall see it with your eyes, but you shall not eat of it”.
And sometimes that’s how we behave. We become disagreeable and skeptical to the extent that we doubt even what God can do. God is not man that he should lie, neither the son of man that he should repent ( Num 23:19). When he says he will provide, heal, restore, protect, redeem etc indeed he will do it. But when we become negative and doubt anything and everything, then we will see it happen to others and we will not partake of it. We must distance ourselves from negativity.
Further readings:
1Sa 15:29
2Ki 7:17
Joh 20:29
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