The Widow’s Oil

 

The Widow’s oil

A newly widowed woman was about to lose her two sons as well as her husband, having to pay off the creditors and no doubt still remaining in debt. The material picture was bleak, hopeless, dark. But she turned to Elisha the prophet , “a spiritual see-er”, he whom her husband had served. He did not drop down to her level of despair; that is not what he saw. Rather he started with what she had, “A Single Pot of Oil”, and made her recognise that with God there is no limitation because infinity has no limits. One idea, necessarily good, has infinite representation. One could say she used the talent she had, and it became many more. The unreality and darkness of limitation was exposed, denied, and touched her no more. When we recognise God as our supply, there is literally nothing to limit what He gives!