SDfAoWOP: the Room

Day Thirty-Six

II Kings 4:10

Let us make a small room on the roof with walls and put there for him a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp, so that whenever he comes to us, he can go in there.

Elisha has found a convenient and hospitable place to stop in all his various ministry travels. He once passed by and the Shunammite woman “urged him to eat some food” so that, whenever he came there, he visited her. She had enough, she looked after him, her house was a place of rest and restoration.

Every once in a while, in the travails and duties of life, you might happen upon someone who is a rest and not more work, whose company is a balm for your soul and whose house is a rest for your body. You work and fret and push past the point of exhaustion. You constantly rush through to the next thing. But then, someone urges you to stop, to eat food, to rest.

After Elisha came by many times, the Shunammite built him a room, she prepared a place for him. It had walls, it was a shelter, a strong tower of refuge. The room had a lamp, for light to push back the darkness. It had a bed, for the rest of the body. She had fashioned a table and chair, for the quiet meditations of the soul. In her house were many rooms, but this one was prepared for him.

Are you going back and forth and up and down, working hard in the land serving The Lord? Stop for a moment and sit in the chair of God’s mercy. Lie in the bed on the bed of his providence. Lighten your darkness with the light of his word. He is preparing a place for himself in you. Do not, therefore, fight him or rush past him in your hunger and weariness. Turn aside and go in to the place he has already made.