2 KINGS 4:1-7
Rogation Days are a lost tradition for most Christians in our time. Four days are devoted to Rogation Days, the fifth Sunday after Easter Sunday and three days thereafter (Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday). Many people see the caption ‘Rogation Days’ on the church calendar in Eastertide and have no idea of what they mean.
One of the traditions during Rogation is that prayers are offered for God’s blessings upon what we do to earn a living. But God cannot bless an idle hand.
Elisha asked the widow that the creditors were coming to collect her children for the debt her husband owed what she had in her house and she replied that she had a little jar of oil. This tells us that no matter how intangible that job or business brings back to us, God would prefer to work with that than to encourage idleness.
Proverbs 14:23 says “In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.” God is not after mere talks and the kind of complaints and excuses some people have decided to clothe themselves with today. Every Christian must find something useful to do, no matter how small. As we pour from that little jar of oil, the increase will come.
Oh Lord, bless the works of our hands!
