3Now there were four men with leprosy at the entrance of the city gate. They said to each other, “Why stay here until we die?”
The Lord uses the most unlikely candidates to rescue. Lepers were outcasts of their society. Everyone else was locked inside the gates of the city. They were under siege and had run out of food. Some even eating their own children in order to survive! The Lord intervenes and sends the enemy running in fear, but those inside the city have no idea it has happened. There is an abundance of food just a short walk away from the city, but the people have no way of knowing it. They are asleep. But the lepers have gotten so desperate they sneak over to the camp in hopes of being able to surrender. And if they are accepted, at least they will be fed. So these four men, who consider themselves as good as dead, leave the area of the city and find the camp empty and full of food. Often those at the bottom of society are those who respond to the call to salvation. People who know they are empty will often reach out for help. When we think we have something, then we are not willing to reach out. When we are desperate, we will go to unlikely places to get our need met, even if the unlikely source is the LORD. When we have nothing to lose, then our hearts are open to what the LORD has to offer. Are you desperate yet? Or do you think you still have something to offer? What stands in the way of your total surrender?
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