If you owned Chipotle stock six years ago I would have advised you to “Sell! Now!” At the time the once seemingly unstoppable food train looked like it was derailing: coming off the track, out of control and crushing everything in its way. On August 7, 2015 the stock hit a peak of $749. Two years later it was below $300 and no one knew when it would hit bottom. Except it had hit bottom and was beginning a steady climb back up and now sits at $1,593. So, even if you bought during the peak in August 2015, and held on, you can still make a hefty profit. Perhaps that explains why Morning Minutes in the Bible on An American Missionary is not an investment advisory post and I’m not an investment advisor.

Instead this is a Bible study post and the only reason we’re talking about Chipotle is because we’re looking at the life of Elisha and have come to 2 Kings 6 and desperate situation involving food problems and prices in Samaria. Previously we talked about the food shortage when Samaria was besieged by Syria, which drove food prices through the roof (sort of like Chipotle stock) and leading to the horror of cannibalism (similar to, though far worse than Chipotle’s food poisoning problems). When the king came to confront Elisha the answer was advance notice of a sudden drop in food prices that would happen the next day (2 Kings 7:1). Anyone who was hoarding food at top price needed to sell – fast.

Chipotle’s executives were shell shocked and took a while to wrap their heads around the company’s precipitous fall. The king’s advisor couldn’t either and asserted that it couldn’t happen even if God “should make windows in heaven”. Sort of like my thinking Chipotle couldn’t rebound. However, Elisha affirmed the advisor would see it, but wouldn’t benefit from the sudden abundance (2 Kings 7:2). The next day the siege ended suddenly with the Syrian army’s food supply left abandoned outside the wall and the king’s advisor trampled to death by the mob rushing to get it (2 Kings 7:16-20).

The moral of the story is simple: put your trust in God and listen to what He says and then do it. Invest your life in Him because He’s the only investment that pays eternal dividends. Oh, and come here for Biblical instruction – not stock tips.