Anticipating Trouble

People love to bring us speedily under the shadow of our doom. They fear the hour of sorrow tarries, so they run before it to speak of its coming. If we do not saddle the horse to meet trouble, some one else does it for us. When Elisha escorted his Master to the highway of heaven beyond Jordan, to wait the coming of ethereal chariots with fiery steeds harnessed in flame, the sons of the prophets must needs leave their studies at Bethel and run to meet him, with the question, "Knowest thou not, the Lord will take away thy master from thy head today?" Then a delegation waited on him from Jericho with the same question. To each he answered, "Hold ye your peace." In other words, "Mind your own business." The world is full of such babblers today, and some of them are sons of the prophets.