The sons of the prophets were staying with Elisha, learning and desiring the instruction of the man of God. The school of the prophets
was growing. One of the young prophets went to Elisha and said, “See the place where we dwell under your charge is too small for us. Let us go to the Jordan and each of us get a there a log, and let us make a place for us to dwell there.” They were growing in number, but the place where they stayed was getting smaller. So this student along with the others wanted to build a bigger building.
He requested of Elisha that they go to the Jordan river and every man grab a log and then build with those logs. Elisha agreed to their request knowing that the place was too small and they needed larger facilities. But as they went to the Jordan there was a young man cutting down a tree and his axe head flew off the handle and into the river. He became distraught for the axe had been borrowed. Chances are he couldn’t afford his own axe, and now it looks as if he would have to replace the axe with money he probably didn’t have.
The most important tool he had was lost. In other words, he lost his edge.
Have you ever lost your spiritual edge? It’s easy to do. Life gets busy and you’re unable to sharpen your spiritual perception. Like the young prophet, while you’re swinging away the edge slips from the handle and falls into the depths of life.
Elisha asked the young man, “Where did it fall?” If they could locate the place, then it could be recovered. Ask yourself the question “Where did I lose my spiritual edge?” Did you lose it when you stopped praying? Did it slip away when you began to neglect the Word of God? Did you lose your edge when your church attendance and involvement waned? Any one of these could lead to your spiritual edge being lost.
Elisha took a stick, threw it in the water, and the axe head floated to the surface. Something so ordinary as getting a stick and throwing it in the water supernaturally produced the edge. Perhaps something as ordinary as praying, reading the Bible, and being faithful to God’s house may supernaturally recover your spiritual edge. Go get your edge back!