Samaria experienced a dramatic turnaround in her economy. Before that, the land was ravaged by a terrible famine, the type that pushed people to eat their children. Then Elisha came in with a word of the Lord: “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”. (2 Kings 7:1 NKJV). True to his word, the whole of Samaria had more than enough within 24 hours.

“Believers need to remember that God’s plans for their lives are not limited to time.”

We all would like to experience miracles like this. However, we cannot give God ultimatums to do things for us. It is also not within our reach to tell God the means or method He would use to answer us. Some things may come even before we ask; some others may require a long period of waiting. The general principle running through the Scriptures favours waiting. While God can do things even in a fraction of time, He wants us to learn the virtue of trust and loyalty. In our previous meditation, we learned that we cannot walk with God as speculators; we must invest the whole of our lives trusting and waiting on Him no matter how long it takes. This is the lesson from our text. Job determined that even if he had to spend his entire life waiting for change, he would do it. Believers need to remember that God’s plans for their lives are not limited to time. Whereas we think in terms of time, God thinks in terms of eternity.