Satisfied in Jesus

Packed into these seven verses is one of the big news stories of the Old Testament. It is a down-and-out to recovery story that ought to hit the headlines.
A widow faces bankruptcy and the threat of her two sons taken into slave-like conditions.
Her bare cupboards tell the whole story of her deep and dire poverty. If you scans your eyes around her home cupboard after cupboard is bare. There’s not a loaf left. There’s not even a copper in the kitty.
The one thing that remains is a jar of oil – cooking oil, olive oil, but it is the last remaining item, but how to enjoy that alone with no bread – there was nothing to cook with it.

Now the account of the multiplying of the oil into the pots that were gathered in is well detailed. Elisha told this woman to get all the pots she could muster. Borrow and beg. Bring them in and lay them nigh at hand. Once the oil flows let every jar be filled one after another.