April 7, 2013 – 2 Kings 7

Lesson 1, don’t call out a prophet.  It is funny how questioning God is repaid.  You think of Sara, who laughed, Zechariah who questioned, and all the others that questioned God and were dealt with in one way or another.  Yet, this is the first thing we do when something happens.  How hard it is for us to look beyond the here and now and try to see the bigger picture.  In the moment, we see only what is happening right now and doubt that God knows what He is doing.

I loved the moment that the lepers feel they are doing something wrong.  I really wondered if they were.  Lepers were kept out of the community, so why should they share what they are finding.  It is because they were removed from the community that they were in this position.  And even after letting this discovery be known, do you think they were welcomed back into the community.  Not if they were still lepers.  But still, they see all this and know that they should share and share the joy of the celebration with the city.  I thought that was a very touching moment.