The Company of the Godly

2 Kings 3:13-15 ESV
13 And Elisha said to the king of Israel, “What have I to do with you? Go to the prophets of your father and to the prophets of your mother.” But the king of Israel said to him, “No; it is the Lord who has called these three kings to give them into the hand of Moab.” 14 And Elisha said, “As the Lord of hosts lives, before whom I stand, were it not that I have regard for Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would neither look at you nor see you. 15 But now bring me a musician.” And when the musician played, the hand of the Lord came upon him.

The king of Israel, Jehoram, went to inquire of the Lord from Elisha. The king of Judah, Jehoshaphat, and the kind of Edom joined him. They were all wondering what to do to defeat Moab.

Elisha would not even have seen him if it wasn’t for who he was with (vs. 14). The company of the Godly opened doors for the king of Israel. (2 Chr 17:3-4 - The LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the earlier ways of his father David. He did not seek the Baals, [4]but sought the God of his father and walked in his commandments, and not according to the practices of Israel.)

Have you ever considered that those around you may be blessed when you seek to follow God with your whole heart? You may have friends or family who are wholly seeking God or have rejected Him entirely. God may be using you as a blessing to these people. Not to make you look good but rather to draw those around you to Him. This is the challenge: don’t compromise your devotion to God in order to keep the peace with close to you. That doesn’t mean you can be obnoxious, it means to continue to love the Lord your God with your whole being regardless if you are around Christian friends and family or if you are around those who don’t follow the Lord.

(observation on music in worship: verse 15 shows how music prepared Elisha’s heart while coming into the Lord’s presence.)