TRUTH#4 PROVIDENCE(Succumbed and the Surviving)

 TRUTH#4 PROVIDENCE(Succumbed and the Surviving)

Jesus refused. “First things first. Your business is life, not death. And life is urgent: Announce God’s kingdom (Luke 9:60, The Message)

The Book of Kings records an interesting incident involving four lepers  As outcasts, they survived at the city gates begging.  The nation of Israel was facing two great challenges.  Great famine inside,  formidable enemy outside.  With nothing to eat, they decide to barge into the enemy camp to grab something.  Death, in any case, was imminent.  Starvation or Syrians was the question now!  If life is spared, they will atleast live with some food.  But the story takes with an unexpected twist.  They find not a single solider in that camp.  They had vanished, leaving behind loads of food and fortune.  An act of God.   With  plenty of wealth to settle, these lepers, could have quitely disappeared from there. But they resolved to share this good news wih the King.  

This story is well known to us.  It is often used to reiterate our responsibility of taking the Gospel to the unreached.

I would like to view this from the perspective of a survivor. 

(1) These lepers were living in an uncertain, unfavourable, unfriendly environment - So are we!

(2) The famine in that nation has killed many.  With nothing to eat, death was knocking at their doors too - So with us!

(3) To survive, they decide to do something that defies logic.  Getting into an enemy camp is akin to putting your hand in lion's mouth.  No way they will be spared.   They chose to act than to remain idle - So we should!

(4) Providentially and miraculously,  their lives were spared.  Spared not for a morsel of food, but for a lifetime of fortune. Spared  to share this good news to the King,  Spared by God, not Syrians - Spared are we!

It is true that we have lost our loved ones during this pandemic. 

It is also true that we, who remain, have either overcome or yet unaffected by this.

God spared those lepers, saved them from an imminent death for a GREAT purpose.

I believe God has spared me not to relish the fortune but publish the good news that JESUS IS GOD!

We are alive, not because we are healthy. We are alive because of His providence.  We are alive because of His purpose.

The lepers tarried not. They said let us go.  How about us?

Tomorrow….