Samaria was starving when Elisha said that by this time tomorrow, flour and barley would be selling at the city gate. He even named the price. The king’s officer said it couldn’t happen. When trouble goes on long enough, we can start thinking nothing will ever change. That evening, four starving lepers sat at the gate and asked each other why they should stay there and wait to die. They got up and went to the Syrian camp, hoping the enemy would spare them. By the time they got there, the Lord had made the Syrians hear what sounded like an approaching army. The Syrians fled and left their supplies behind. The lepers had gone looking for a way to live and found food that God provided. They ate and carried the news back to the gate. The next day, flour and barley sold for exactly what God had said. The officer who doubted God’s word never tasted a bite. When we’re tempted to give up, we can rise up and look for what the Lord may already have provided.
“Why sit we here until we die?” —2 Kings 7:3
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