Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha
Take on your enemies. Challenge your oppressor, break the siege, dare your oppressor.
The people of Samaria suffered the consequences of an
unnecessary famine which unfortunately had progressed to cannibalism as some of
the citizens of Samaria had taken to eating their children. Apart from being
enraged, the King of Samaria was also depressed when he heard about it.
Unfortunately, he also acted like the people of Samaria. How? Rather than talk
to God about the situation, he threatened to remove the head of the prophet
Elisha as if that would put an end to the famine.
But Elisha who heard the threat of the King by the Spirit of
God in his house acted by the Spirit of God and spoke abundant food resources
into existence. Elisha prophesied abundance, not in a year’s time, not in a
month’s time, not in a week’s time; but the following day. How do you suddenly
contain a famine which had raged on for some time the following day when you
had not ordered food resources from people or nations who had the military
prowess to subdue the Syrian army who had successfully laid the siege against
Israel which of course culminated in the famine? This probably explains why the
official of the King despised the prophecy of Elisha about the sudden abundance
of food resources the following day.
But unknown to the official of the King, God’s ways are not
the ways of man. To start with, God created the entire world and the heavens
and therefore owns everything; and because all power belongs to Him alone, He
can do whatever He likes with that power; usually for the benefit of His
children who cry to Him for help; who believe in Him and trust in Him to help
them. So just across the road, between the securely locked gates of Samaria and
the camp of the Syrian was the abundance; quite significant and instructive, a
great abundance of not only food resources, money, clothing and you name it;
waiting patiently for the people of Samaria to have as much as they required.
But the people of Samaria were already cowed into hiding by the threats of the
Syrian army. So they could not dare across the road into that abundance.
So they starved and the ones who could no longer bear the
hunger ate up their children. But four young men, lepers who begged for a
living at the gates of Samaria became very hungry and dared to go beyond the
gates of Samaria to the camp of the Syrian army. Perhaps, it was the gnawing
hunger or just the boldness to dare. But whatever it was, they dared and in
daring they discovered the abundant resources God had in stock for the people
of Samaria. The abundant food and other resources were not in the stratosphere,
were not miles away but within easy reach; just across the road.
Thanks to the lepers who made the discovery and also shared the discovery with the people of Samaria. Beloved, the famine came to an end as Elisha rightly prophesied. But what is significant and instructive is that God did not need to open the windows of heaven as the official of the King derided. Rather, God used the same people who caused the famine to create the abundance which His people required.
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