Do Something
June 25, 2007
Ever wonder if something you felt like something you were supposed to do was of God or not and you just stalled on it, waiting for God to speak. I got a clue for you, go do it.
2Ki 7:3-5 JPS
(3) Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate; and they said one to another: 'Why sit we here until we die?
(4) If we say: We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there; and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Arameans; if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.'
(5) And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the Arameans; and when they were come to the outermost part of the camp of the Arameans, behold, there was no man there.
The King of Aram had Samaria of Israel under siege. They had gotten down to boiling children in Samaria to eat so they could survive.
The three lepers had three choices.
- Do nothing - die
- Go back into the city though they were unclean - die
- Go into the enemy camp - they had food, maybe they would be taken prisoner and live, maybe they would die.
So two of the three choices they die and the third one is a fifty-fifty chance. Rather than sit there and die, they took there chances.
And that is often what God wants us to do. Take our chances. What is the worst thing that you can do if you take a chance for God. I will tell you, it is fail. But remember something. If you do not know failure, you will not know victory either. Think on this. Basketball great Michael Jordan has the record for most winning baskets at the end of the game. That is a great record. Did you know that he also has the most missed baskets at the end of a game that would have won it also. He took the chance, and we need to as well.
--Translation Information
1917 by The Jewish Publication Society (JPS)
