Shunamite Woman
Today’s Reading: 2 Kings 4:8-37 and 2 Kings 8:1-6
Focal Verses: 2 Kings 4:9-10
And she said to her husband, “Look now, I know that this is a holy man of God, who passes by us regularly. Please, let us make a small upper room on the wall; and let us put a bed for him there, and a table and a chair and a lampstand; so it will be, whenever he comes to us, he can turn in there.”
As far as we know, the Shunamite woman didn’t perform great miracles. She didn’t live a perfect life. She didn’t lead an army into battle. She didn’t make a huge donation. She wasn’t one of God’s prophets. We don’t even know what her name was. Yet God showed her great favor.
She had wealth and social position, but no son. God gave her one. The son died. God restored his life. He warned of a famine and led her to another land so she would not go hungry, and when she returned seven years later, He restored not only all her lands, but all the proceeds from them in the time she was gone.
Why, then? Why the special favor?
She showed her love for God by showing hospitality to a servant of God.
1 Peter 4:9 tells us to, “Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.”
Ask God to show you ways to be hospitable.
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