Lesson to Learn from Elisha and the Widow's Oil
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| Elisha and the Widow's Oil |
In one family there was
father, mother and two sons. One day father became very sick and died but
because of his sickness they had lot of debt and now she had to clear all the
debt. Father was a prophet and to survive he was working hard but because of
some sudden emergency he had borrowed money from someone. There financial
condition was not good. They had only one old mud jug with a bit of olive oil
in it.
To clear the debt
creditors were planned to sell her sons as slave. Widow told her problems to
Elisha and prayed to God because God gave him powers to do miracle. As Elisha
suggested her to borrow all the empty jugs, jars and bowl from her neighbors
and go home, close the door and pour out the oil into all the containers. Widow
did as the Elisha said but they kept pouring oil in the containers but the oil
would not finish.
They did not find any
more containers; they experience the miracle and share it with Elisha.
Elisha smile and said
now sell the olive oil and clear all the debts you have.
Learn from Elisha and
the Widow's Oil meaning of object lesson! Short story for children's preschool
lesson is known as Elisha and the Jar of Oil too. According to our own
understanding everyone will have different moral lesson's to learn from this
story.
Here we are going to
share some lessons -
1. God will give us
award and rewards when will show faith.
2. We must be obedient
to get the blessings.
3. We should be a good
listener because listening we will not understand.
4. Love your neighbor
means whenever we will be in time of trouble they will also help
us.
5. We must not contempt
with what God has provided us.