What powerful words, aren’t they?

‘It shall be well!’

Words we utter when full of hope and certainty. But imagine saying the same in the midst of despair and grief?

Because these words were uttered as a mother looked at the body of her dead son, then looking up at her husband, assured him, things would be okay.

Because of the simple fact that she knew the man-Elisha, who had previously made everything well.

She had been a barren woman for many years-childless while around her, women conceived and were proud of their little ones.

Whenever Elisha passed through Shunem, she looked after him, and even got her husband to build a small room for the prophet.

Elisha was touched: He told his servant Gehazi to call her: And in 2 Kings chapter 17 we read, “And when he had called her, she stood in the door. And he said, ‘About this season, according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, ‘Nay, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto thine handmaid.’ And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season that Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life.

And then in the next chapter we read, ‘¹⁸ One day when her child was older, he went out to help his father, who was working with the harvesters. ¹⁹ Suddenly he cried out, “My head hurts! My head hurts!”

His father said to one of the servants, “Carry him home to his mother.”

²⁰ So the servant took him home, and his mother held him on her lap. But around noontime he died. ²¹ She carried him up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, then shut the door and left him there. ²² She sent a message to her husband: “Send one of the servants and a donkey so that I can hurry to the man of God and come right back.”

²³ “Why go today?” he asked. “It is neither a new moon festival nor a Sabbath.”

But she said, “It shall be well.”

And it all went well. Elisha came back and raised the boy from the dead.

Why was she so sure? Because she knew Elisha, had seen the miracle of her barrenness transformed, and was so certain about the prophet of God, that she could stare death in the face and say, ‘All will be well!”

Can we do that, when we go through depressing times? Times when we think our world is falling apart?

It all depends on how well you know your God. How well, you have, like the woman, cared for God through following His commandments and accepting Him to be the One in control of your life.

Then in your darkest hour, you will say with full conviction, ‘It shall be well’..!

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