The question that I will attempt to answer in relation to these verses, is this: How can you honor your godly father in a way which will please God? How can we honor not only our earthly fathers but our spiritual fathers as well? I believe that Elisha was a model to us, in this regard, in a number of meaningful ways that we can learn from. Elisha looked, it says in verse 12, and he saw Elijah's translation to heaven, and he exclaimed, "My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!" He knew that Elijah was being taken away from the sons of the prophets and the people of Israel. He knew that his master, this "father" to him and to many others, had been a great strength to them and their whole nation. Even as chariots and horsemen are the defense of a country and its people, so was Elijah to the nation of Israel because of his godliness. It was the spiritual example of his life and his words which Elisha learned from, and it will be the same with you in relation to your father if he knows the Lord. At this hour I want to set before you this man Elisha's good example of how he honored his spiritual father, Elijah. He honored him in 2 specific ways according to these verses: 1st – By his determination to stick close to his spiritual father. And 2nd – By his determination to see what God was doing through Elijah, even in his final days.
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Pastor Paul Rendall was born in November of 1951, and grew up in Davenport, Iowa. He went to college at Drake University and the University of Iowa where he received a B.A. degree in Social Work and History in 1974. Paul searched for truth in all the wrong places in college, but...
