PRACTICAL CHRISTIANITY - MEDITATE DAY AND NIGHT
May 16th, 2026.
“Look, the place where we meet with you is too small for us. Let us go to the Jordan, where each of us can get a pole; and let us build a place there for us to meet.” And he said, “Go.” Then one of them said, “Won’t you please come with your servants?” “I will,” Elisha replied. And he went with them. They went to the Jordan and began to cut down trees. As one of them was cutting down a tree, the iron axe head fell into the water. “Oh no, my lord!” he cried out. “It was borrowed!” (2 Kings 6:1-5 NIV) This was one of the miracles performed by Elisha.
The Law of Moses says: “If anyone borrows an animal from their neighbor and it is injured or dies while the owner is not present, they must make restitution.” (Exo. 22:14) And Psalm 37:21 says; "The wicked borrow and do not repay." This may have informed the prophet of how serious the situation was. The borrowed axe head was lost. The axe head is the power of the axe and it was the power that was lost and buried at the bottom of the river. And not any river but river Jordan - the river where Jesus was baptized. Water baptism signifies the "old you" dies to sin and is buried with Christ.
The prophets’ intention was to ‘build a place there for them to meet.’ Jesus said, “I go to prepare a place for you.” (John 14:2). The axe is a tool just like we are all tools in God’s hand. The axe head fell out of the handle into the river just as sin removed us from the presence of God. The axe head was lost just as we were lost too.
The prophet approached Elisha, a man of God, and reported the loss of the axe head with the emphasis that it was borrowed. Everything we are, everything we have is borrowed. And for our recovery, we have to come to Jesus. As Elisha cut a piece of wood and threw it into the river, a prophetic demonstration of Jesus’ sacrifice on the wood-cross for our redemption and restitution, so Jesus died on the cross and whoever believes, is dipped in the river and baptized unto His death. The weight of our sin like the iron pulled us under and only by His grace that we become light again to float on the river. The axe head was recovered and returned to its owner. The sinner returns to God.
The miracle of the axe head happened in the past, yet spoke of the future. A future that is now our reality. The word of God is indeed powerful and sharper than any two edged sword.
THE WORD: "Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life." (Rom. 6:4 NKJV)
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