A widow and some oil

Check this story out about the prophet Elisha and a widow in 2 Kings chapter 4. She apparently has just a little oil to her name. The problem being that she owes way more debt than she can pay and the creditors are coming to collect. They are apparently on her doorstep. And they are going to take her 2 sons as slaves since she can't pay up.

Or can she?

Elisha tells her to go get empty jars from her neighbors. He tells her "don't ask for just a few." Then he tells her to go into her house and pour oil into said jars until they are filled. I wonder what she thought about this. Did she expect the miracle of her little bit of oil filling these jars? Who knows? Apparently she just went out and asked her neighbors for jars. She obeyed.

And I notice the oil stopped flowing when she ran out of jars. It's almost as if the extent/scale of this thing was up to her: she could have filled 20 jars or hundreds.

This widows husband was "a man from the company of the prophets." He "revered the Lord." And so enter the miracle of the oil filled jars. She sold them to pay off her debts and lived off the rest. I guess God really can be trusted to provide, just like he says. Whether I live or whether I die, God can be trusted to take care of my family. I just don't care for his timing. He seems to come through at the last minute yet again.

"God is faiththful, but he is slow." - Devlin Donaldson