There is a passage in The Old Testament I had most likely read before….but did not recall.

It refers to the “bones of Elisha”.

If you know Elisha, he sought after another prophet, he sought the gift and wanted the “mantle” of Elijah to be passed to him.

In 2 Kings , it says that a group of men were burying a friend. They saw another band of threatening looking people coming toward them and so they tossed or quickly lowered their deceased friends body into a grave nearby.

It was where Elisha was buried.

When the deceased mans body touched the bones of Elisha…..

he was revived,

came to life,

and stood on his feet.

Nothing else was mentioned about this man. Like Jabez….a profound statement was made about this person… and we hear no more about them.

It must not matter.

What was briefly mentioned must have sufficed to teach the lesson.

Jabez and the prayer he lifted to God has become the basis for sermons. Books and studies.

This reference to an unnamed and unknown man being brought back to life after touching the bones of Elisha….

must be enough for the reader to gain the intended instruction.

It’s not frivolous.

Resurrection happens only a very few times in the Bible. It most often was relative to Jesus and what He did.

It’s worth paying attention to.

Elisha wanted the gift Elijah had….

and asked for a double portion.

He laid himself prone on a dead body and

life returned to the deceased person.

He was known as a “wonder-worker”.

When he asked for double-portion of Elijah’s gift, the older prophet told him this would be a hard thing.

My thought is that it was not a hard thing for Elijah to grant Elisha the double portion, or for God to allow it.

The “hard thing” was going to be what was brought to Elisha in and because of the gift.

This was a “count the cost” issue.

But with that gift, Elisha changed lives.

He was obedient and active in the carrying out of the gift he was granted during his life…

that he was able to be used by God to bring life back to dead people.

This may not be theoretically correct here…but he was in receipt of so much from God that even after he died…

his bones had resurrection power.

Read 2 Kings 13: 21.

Can the “bones of Elisha” resurrect something in you?

Can you become obedient and pursuant of Gods blessing to the extent this same power might live and work in and through you?

It might depend on what you want?

Elisha followed Elijah, pursued him and sought after and asked for not merely what Elijah had been given…

but twice what Elijah had been given.

He was serious.

At some point we all must get and be serious.

In my life that came at about age 35.

God’s Word tells us we will find Him and all He has for us if we search for Him and desire Him with all our heart.

Getting serious.

Elisha got serious.

And during his life and even after his life…

God used him to bring resurrection to people.

It is not a gift you cannot desire.

This same power can be given and gifted to us.

Has your life been touched by

the bones of Elisha

in some way??

May our “bones” be used to bring light, hope and life to someone in a similar way.

Might happen….if we ask for it.