Tuesday, October 26, 2010

It's Good to Be a Weakling


“Then they said to each other, ‘We’re not doing right. This is a day of good news and we are keeping it to ourselves. If we wait until daylight, punishment will overtake us. Let’s go at once and report this to the royal palace.’” 2 Kings 7:9


This is one of the curious encounters in the Old Testament when God reveals His unique inclination to bring Good News through the weak outsiders of society. God loves to reveal His glory through the weak individuals of the world. He makes boasting ridiculous. 1 Corinthians 1:27–29 “But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. 28 He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, 29 so that no one may boast before him.”

The situation in 2 Kings 7 was serious. The Arameans were attacking Israel and the inhabitants of the capital had become cannibals. God promised through His prophet Elisha that within a day that salvation would come.

The story goes from the King’s fortress to a group of lepers. These men were the lowest of the low. And yet it was through them that God revealed His salvation. After God had ran the Arameans off miraculously, these men discovered the truth. In the midst of their celebration they were grief stricken that they had not shared the Good News of God.

Oh, that the hearts of God’s people today would be like those lepers. We have been given Good News of great joy in a land where people are under siege by the enemy. People need hope. People need healing. People need salvation.

Ask God to enable you to share the hope you have in Jesus with one lost hurting person today.

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