HERO | A Children's Book Connecting Jesus' Ministry To ElishaExemplo

Over the next few days, I often stop working or playing. I pause without knowing it to think about Elisha and Jesus. 

One of the things that Saba loves to do when I seem down or sad is to take me sailing in our fishing boat. Saba playfully shouts to me, “Eli, get your warm sweater and pack up some of that fish and bread. Let’s go for a ride in the boat today.” 

He gets my attention. I jump up, speed around the house to pack food in my little satchel and gather supplies. Rushing out the door, we are sailing and fishing out on the lake before we even know it (fishing on Lake Tiberius, which is another name for the Sea of Galilee). 

Moving along the far shores trying to find the best place to fish, I spot a man off in the distance standing atop a hill. 

It is him, it is Jesus—again! 

“Saba,” I shout, “Stop the boat! Pull it up on shore right here.” And before Saba can get the boat fully out of the water, I am off like a flash. I squirm my way through the crowd until I reach Jesus. 

I hear Jesus talking to one of his men, and the man said, “Where are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat?” I scratch my head and think, Why are Jesus and his men trying to feed everyone? No sooner can I get this thought to cross my mind when another man comes up to Jesus to begin speaking to him; and as they talk, the man points at me. 

“Look, there is a boy who has loaves and fish in his satchel.” 

As the men pass out my bread and fish, all the people eat, and baskets of food are even left over. 

This just does not make sense. This man does what Elisha did. Elisha once had taken bread and grain and fed 100 men when there was not enough food. Can Jesus be someone greater than Elisha?