A SUDDEN DEEP FREEZE

2 Kings 6:24-31
Psalms 40:1
Psalms 30:2


Many companies across the board have used services and acquired goods and withheld payment to suppliers inorder to conserve cash in the face of the corona virus lockdowns.

Consequently kick-starting an economic sudden deep freeze.

The amount of money that is more than 10 days overdue has grown 56% in France, 52% in Spain, and a whopping 82% in Italy since the World Health Organization declared a pandemic on March 11.

The U.K and the Netherlands have each seen about a 25% increase, while Belgium has seen a 44% spike.

That's according to data released on the 23rd of April 2020 by Sidetrade, a Paris -based software company that helps businesses with customer engagement, cash management, and invoice collection.

The firm looked at data for some 28.5 million business-to-business invoices, adding up to more than 50 billion euros($54billion) and involving about 4 million companies.

Mark Sheldon, Sidetrade's chief technology officer, said the sudden leap in unpaid invoices is "unprecedented" and can't be easily compared to other previous recessions.

Have you not yet realized that every thing that the world is enduring at present has no comparisons.

It has no comparisons because the world has never been at a place where it finds itself right now.

None the less having said all of that in 2 Kings 6:24-31 we find a woman yelling to the king of Israel as he was passing by on the city wall.

This was exactly the time when the king of Syria Ben Hadad had assembled his entire army and attacked and besieged Samaria.

Samaria's food supply ran out in the course of the siege by the king of Syria and the people of Samaria were starving.

And this is much akin to the present situation in the world today where millions of people around the world are constantly being threatened by hunger because their food supply is running out due to a siege upstaged by the novel corona virus.

"Help us my master, oh king!" - The woman yells and the king of Israel replied, No , let the LORD help you.

How can I help you?

The threshing floor and winepress are empty."

Then the king asked her, "what's your problem?"

She answered, "This woman said to me, ' Hand over your son , we 'll eat him today and then eat my son tomorrow."

So we boiled my son and ate him.

Then I said to her the next day. " Hand over your son and we'll eat him.'

But she hid her son."

When the king heard what the woman said, he tore his clothes."

The king's action of tearing his clothes was an illustrative expression and an indication of frustration and helplessness.

The king was saying to the yelling woman in no uncertain terms -" I can't not help you cause am at the point of frustration".

Thousands if not millions around the world are sharing in this helplessness and in this frustration .

A frustration that has come upon you because you rendered a service out of your good nature to some one and to some type of organization and when it was their turn to give back to you they hide and withheld back their hand.

As a sign that even though you serviced them they are not willing to service you.

In the same spirit the woman was not Willing to surrender his son after eating her contemporary's son

And now you feel manipulated, lied and played by someone, by some organization and even by your government.

When the government required you to pay your tax you paid your tax but now that you in desperate need of help the government has deep freezed and they refuse to help you.

It's frustrating cause when the church leader called out unto you to give a cash donation you gave your best but now that you in need of some basics to survive today and tomorrow the church leader is withholding his hand and he won't give back to you.

And now your entire perception of those that are required to step into the gap for you has shifted.

It has shifted because now they nothing but manipulators, liers and takers.

In 2 Kings 6:27 the king of Israel replied to the yelling woman who was asking him for help and said, No let the LORD help you.

The woman expected the king to help her but the king replied unto her and said, No let the LORD help you.

And in 2 king 6:30 after the king heard the yelling woman's full narrative , he tore his clothes.

Just to tell her that am deeply touched by your experience but I can't help you cause am frustrated and helpless myself.

Indicatively those that you hope and expect to help you in this day and time are also frustrated and helpless.

And because they are frustrated and helpless it's only God that can help you.

Government leaders are frustrated, church leaders are frustrated and even Civic leaders are frustrated.

Hence it's time to cry out unto God cause he alone can help us out of this sudden deep freeze.

The government and the church leader took your money and now in your mind they have become nothing but a liars , manipulators and takers because you on the verge of a famine of biblical proportion and they are not helping you out.

But perhaps they can't help you cause they are helpless and frustrated themself.

David the great psalmist makes a statement in Psalms 30:2 and says,"LORD my God, I cried to you for help and you healed me.

While on the other hands David's adds in Psalms 40:1," I waited patiently for the LORD: he turned to me and heard my cry.

He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire: he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand.

I desire to do your will, o my God: your law is within my heart."