Sometimes confessing our troubles to others is not God's best. It requires holding our peace until the right time. That means not to everyone..
2 Kings 4 Has a Story about Elisha and the Shunemite Woman..
15 “Call her back again,” Elisha told him. When the woman returned, Elisha said to her as she stood in the doorway, 16 “Next year at this time you will be holding a son in your arms!”
“No, my lord!” she cried. “O man of God, don’t deceive me and get my hopes up like that.”
17 But sure enough, the woman soon became pregnant. And at that time the following year she had a son, just as Elisha had said.
18 One day when her child was older, he went out to help his father, who was working with the harvesters. 19 Suddenly he cried out, “My head hurts! My head hurts!”
His father said to one of the servants, “Carry him home to his mother.”
20 So the servant took him home, and his mother held him on her lap. But around noontime he died. 21 She carried him up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, then shut the door and left him there. 22 She
sent a message to her husband: “Send one of the servants and a donkey
so that I can hurry to the man of God and come right back.”
23 “Why go today?” he asked. “It is neither a new moon festival nor a Sabbath.”
But she said, “It will be all right.”
24 So she saddled the donkey and said to the servant, “Hurry! Don’t slow down unless I tell you to.”
25 As
she approached the man of God at Mount Carmel, Elisha saw her in the
distance. He said to Gehazi, “Look, the woman from Shunem is coming. 26 Run out to meet her and ask her, ‘Is everything all right with you, your husband, and your child?’”
“Yes,” the woman told Gehazi, “everything is fine.”
27 But
when she came to the man of God at the mountain, she fell to the ground
before him and caught hold of his feet. Gehazi began to push her away,
but the man of God said, “Leave her alone. She is deeply troubled, but
the Lord has not told me what it is.”
28 Then she said, “Did I ask you for a son, my lord? And didn’t I say, ‘Don’t deceive me and get my hopes up’?”
29 Then Elisha said to Gehazi, “Get ready to travel[a]; take my staff and go! Don’t talk to anyone along the way. Go quickly and lay the staff on the child’s face.”
30 But the boy’s mother said, “As surely as the Lord lives and you yourself live, I won’t go home unless you go with me.” So Elisha returned with her.
31 Gehazi
hurried on ahead and laid the staff on the child’s face, but nothing
happened. There was no sign of life. He returned to meet Elisha and told
him, “The child is still dead.”
32 When Elisha arrived, the child was indeed dead, lying there on the prophet’s bed. 33 He went in alone and shut the door behind him and prayed to the Lord. 34 Then
he lay down on the child’s body, placing his mouth on the child’s
mouth, his eyes on the child’s eyes, and his hands on the child’s hands.
And as he stretched out on him, the child’s body began to grow warm
again! 35 Elisha
got up, walked back and forth across the room once, and then stretched
himself out again on the child. This time the boy sneezed seven times
and opened his eyes!
36 Then Elisha summoned Gehazi. “Call the child’s mother!” he said. And when she came in, Elisha said, “Here, take your son!” 37 She
fell at his feet and bowed before him, overwhelmed with gratitude. Then
she took her son in her arms and carried him downstairs.
What would have happened if she had spilled her guts to her husband, or Gehazi.. would the child have been healed?
Sometimes it's best to go to the heart and keep our mouth shut.
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