Plenty During a Famine

Scripture Reading: 2 Kings 7

Focus Verse: 2 Kings 7:9  “Finally, they said to each other, This is not right. This is a day of good news and we aren’t sharing it with anyone.  If we wait until morning, some calamity will certainly fall upon us.  Come on, let’s go back and tell the people at the palace.”

What an odd story we find in 2 Kings 7.  Here are four men dying of leprosy at the city gate during a famine.  Not only are they starving, but everyone in the city is also starving.  So the four lepers decide to go visit the enemy camp to see if there is food there.  Thinking they may be killed by the enemy, but they thought it was a risk they should take to find some food.  Much to their surprise when they got to the enemy camp not a person was there.  All their food, gold, silver, and possessions were all there in their tents.  So the four men began eating their fill for food.  They took some of the gold and silver and hid it.  But there was so much they could not carry it all away. Then they began to feel guilty.  Here they were enjoying all these good things while the people back in their town are starving.  So they decided to go back and tell what they had found.  

This story reminds me of how we treat the Gospel message sometimes.  As believers in Christ we have found the truth of God’s Word and salvation.  And we sit around feasting on it, and rarely telling another person what we have found.  The world is out there starving spiritually.  Let us do as the lepers did and go back and tell of the riches we have found through a relationship with God.  We have plenty, so let’s share what we have found.  The best way you could show someone that you love them is to tell them about Jesus.   

Bobby Johnson

Interlocking Ministries