This was our Sunday School lesson for my 3rd and 4th grade class this week. I'm really enjoying it and it's challenging my heart so I thought I would share these treasures with you:
Passage: II Kings 6:24-7:20
Samaria is surrounded by Syria and they are in the midst of a famine. The famine is so severe that they have exhausted the livestock and have turned to cannibalism. Elisha is sought by the king and promises abundant food to the people the next day (and thus keeps his head on his shoulders).
The Lord answers this prophecy of Elisha by some unlikely persons--4 lepers that were sitting outside the city. These lepers began to talk amongst themselves and decided they had 3 options:
- Do nothing and thus die of starvation
- Go inside the city and die of starvation or
- Go to the Syrians, be taken prisoner but also be given food and live
They choose to go to the Syrians and as they are approaching the Syrians hear what sounds like "the noise of horses--the noise of a great army" (II Kings 7:6) and they flee thinking that the Israelites had hired the Hittites or perhaps the Egyptians to war with them. The 4 lepers come upon an empty camp where food is left as well as treasures and valuables. As they are hiding the valuables and eating they stop and say:
"We are not doing right.
This day is a day of good news,
and we remain silent...
now therefore, let us go
and tell the king's household."
II Kings 7:9
The lepers recognized that they had the key to saving the people of Samaria...they knew that the Syrians had fled and that there was food for the starving people of Samaria. How could they keep silent when they knew so many would die without this news?
And yet, how often do I keep silent with the good news that I have, the good news that though we are sinners, Christ died on the cross for our sins, and rose again so that we all might be saved to an eternity in heaven? The good news that is the key to saving souls from an eternal death??
II Kings lesson To be cont...
4 comments:
Thanks for this reminder of what matters most in life is the Lord and His work.... I do not want to hinder that work.... How many people do we see that need to know the Lord.
I am so looking forward to Steve Price and John Heller's Evangelism weekend.
I need to grow and learn so much about it.
Is the Evangelism weekend the same as the discpleship weekend? I must admit that when the notice came in the mail I forgot to look at the topic b/c I realized that I was probably cooking for it and didn't even know it! Ha! I hope to see you there! It's been way too long! -kj
Hey I think it is Jan 27. Micah is taking the day off. I wanted to ask you what med you are on for your migraines because I have been having cluster migraines and I am miserable. I go to see my neurologist this Friday and wanted to have some ideas beforehand of things to try.
you can email if you like...
analizdaniel@gmail.com
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