These 3 verses speak about Elisha, who was praying that his servant not be afraid and open his eyes so he may see. God opened his eyes and the servant saw. We need to open our eyes and not be afraid.
But we do get afraid and often it's not even a conscious thing. It's just there. And when we go through the hard times, we get afraid, we tell God (like David in the Psalms) all the woe is me stuff and then ask Him to fix us. We wonder if He has left us alone because when we get in messes, we pray and pray and pray and we don't think we're getting an answer, we don't understand why God isn't helping us. We think we are doing all the right things. My devotional said maybe not, maybe in our praying, we may only be talking to ourselves and not to the Father and are aware of only ourselves and wishing for the ability to handle stuff on our own. No waiting for God to do it.
Sometimes God puts people in our lives to help keep us focused on Him. Sort of helpers from heaven. God has put these people into my life. They constantly remind me that God loves me, He hasn't left me, He won't leave me and He will fix me, but it will be in His way and in His time. I know these people have been sent to me from God and I am so very thankful because I'm blind and can't see things with open eyes and, like Elisha with his servant, they pray for me to see. I praise God every day for their willingness to help me see and to let God help me.
God is always with us and we need to trust in Him at all times. If we open our eyes and really see, we would see that God is answering our prayers. So let's look around and be more aware of how God may be helping us. I bet we can see it in places we never thought of.
