A Day of Good News

Then they said to one another, “We are not doing right. This day is a day of good news. If we are silent and wait until the morning light, punishment will overtake us. Now therefore come; let us go and tell the king's household.” - 2 Kings 7:9

It is a familiar story to both Bible readers and students alike. Lepers, who sat starving in Jerusalem (along with everyone else due to a Syrian siege), ventured to the enemy's camp to either find something to eat or die trying. What they discovered when they arrived was an abundant provision and all the soldiers gone!

Now, they could have kept this wonderful news to themselves, after all, who would believe them anyway? Yet, they chose to let the entire city (that had rejected them) know the deliverance that God had provided.

It is a familiar story and perhaps, so is the application, but it bears repeating because we so often repeat our own failure and disobedience due to apathy or fear. We are surrounded by spiritual starvation and yet a bounty may be found in Jesus Christ. It is a "day of good news." Why do we remain silent?

The spiritual is greater than the natural. God can endow a humble human being with awesome moral force. Holiness has within itself the power to master all other powers. - David Roper