‘THE IRON DID SWIM’

“AND the man of God said, where fell it? And he showed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it thither; and the iron did swim,” 2 Kings 6: 6. Reader, if God could solve a problem; if He could resolve a crisis, by causing the head of an axe to ‘swim’ in water; I believe that things are easier in God; and that the things that look quite unlikely with man, are doable with God. The above Word of God that I have shared with you comes from a Bible story of a mishap and a crisis.

The son of a prophet had borrowed an axe from an unnamed person, and joined a company of other sons of prophets, and went to the river Jordan with Prophet Elisha, and there started to cut down some wood. While they were busy at it, the head of the borrowed axe fell into the water, and the borrower cried out to Prophet Elisha, saying; “Alas, master, for it was borrowed.”

The man was faced with a predicament, and had not the slightest clue of what to do next. But thank God he cried to the man of God, Prophet Elisha. And when Elisha asked the bewildered son of a prophet where the head of the axe had fallen, he showed Elisha the place. And what followed is that Elisha ‘cut down a stick, and cast it in thither; and the iron did swim’. The head of an axe did swim in water reader. That is God for you!

The ease with which God did the seemingly impossible, is significant to me dear reader; the simple step of man casting a stick into the water resulted in one of the most astounding miracles in the whole Bible.
When God intervened, the head of an axe became light enough to swim and float. It reminds one of the words of Jesus Christ when He said; “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” He continued to say; “For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light,” Matt.11: 28, 30. He said; “All things are delivered unto me of my Father.” There is nothing too hard for Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

But we remember also, don’t we, that when Pharaoh of Egypt pursued the children of Israel to the Red Sea, at God’s command Moses simply ‘...stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided’ (Exodus 14:21). With the greatest ease it was all done, and the children of God crossed on dry land; and at another stretch of the hand of Moses over the sea, the sea returned in full strength and overthrew Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots and his horsemen.

Reader, Moses had cried out to God for help when he and the children of God were sandwiched between an angry enemy and a raging sea, and the sea opened before them. The borrower of the fallen axe cried out to a true and genuine Man of God, and the iron did swim. I, myself, have often cried to God in seemingly ‘impossible situations’ of my life and God has made things light and easy for me. And I will share these encounters with you here next Friday. For today I pray that the iron may swim in all your predicaments of life when you cry to God until we meet here again.

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