What I love most about this story is the creativity of God’s faithfulness. Of course, we know that God is a God of miracles. Rarely those miracles take place exactly the way we think they will. Most times they come about through our cooperation through less-than-ideal circumstances. The personal attendant of the king doubted God because he failed to take into consideration the unlimited degree to which God could work a miracle.
He was wrong in assuming that God could not or would not drop food from the sky, but he was also wrong in thinking God could not or would not weave his providence into their day-to-day lives. Do we do the same today?
What’s even more striking about this story is that He chooses to use four lepers to reveal his glory. In the world’s eyes, these lepers would have been the least likely “heroes” of the story. By faith and logic, they left Israel in search of what they needed. They correctly concluded that to stay there and do nothing would only lead to death. Often, it is the meekest and most humble individual who can see God the most clearly.
“When God sends blessings to His people, He rarely takes methods that we might expect. Rather, He chooses the weak and foolish things, yea, those that are not, to confound those that are, so as to prevent flesh from glorying in His presence.”
F.B. Meyer
The sad part of the story is that there were some, like the personal attendant, who did not have faith in the power of God. The same is true today. Just like the previous chapter where Elisha reveals God’s army in the spiritual realm that waits to attack, we must believe there is much more going on behind the scenes. He is the God of the impossible.
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blessed portion of scripture. Each time i doubt God's ability to provide or perform the unthinkable in my life, I'm reminded of how the lepers realized that doing nothing about a conviction in your heart is as good as allowing your self to die. I'm inspired to dive in deep, as long as the master has spoken, nomatter how unpromising the outcome is.