Text: 2 Kings 7:5-9
Memory verse:
“For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.””
‭‭Acts‬ ‭4‬:‭20‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

According to the Greek myth, ‘Lethe’ is one of the five rivers in hell that caused forgetfulness in those who drank its waters. When someone forgets everything about where he started and how he started, such a person could be said to have drank of it. It is similar to amnesia.
Some years ago, I read about a young husband who forgot that he was married. A day after their honeymoon, the husband returning from his office, went back to his mother’s house!
In our text, the lepers said to each other, “This is not right. This is a day of good news, and we aren’t sharing it with anyone! .. ((2 Kings 7:9 NLT).
For a moment, the lepers forgot their background. Who would have imagined that the four lepers who were graciously saved from death would forget others who were surrounded by death back at home!
They forgot that they were not saved from death by their own ingenuity but by the grace of God. Remember that prophet Elisha had earlier prophesied a sudden turnaround and abundance for that day ‭‭(II Kings‬ ‭7‬:‭1‬).
The same old problem of man, which is self-centeredness, was revealed here again. Rather than surrendering to death, which they had hoped, they bumped into an unimaginable surplus! Then, they began to eat and drink, gather, and hide ‭‭(II Kings‬ ‭7‬:‭8‬).
They filled themselves with food and drink; kept sizing and changing cloths; went back and forth to gather money, packed things, and hid them……and kept silent! While they were dining, they didn’t think of others at home who were dying. They were filled, others were famished; they were helped…others were hopeless. They knew the secret, yet for a while, they didn’t share!
Is that not what we do today? We are even more guilty than the lepers, as many don’t even share at all. Having been saved from sin and death, we keep enjoying God’s riches and refuse to share it with our family members, friends, neighbours and colleagues who are languishing in sin and traveling on the pathway of destruction. Like the lepers said, “We shouldn’t be doing this! We have good news, and we shouldn’t keep it to ourselves…” (2 Kings 7:9 GNT).
Friends, have you forgotten that you were a leper billed for death before God’s grace saved you? Are you now selfish and stingy with the good news?

Prayer points
1. Father, please forgive me in every way I have been selfish with Your riches and silent with the good news, in Jesus’ name.
2. Father, put compassion for the lost and the unsaved in my heart, in Jesus’ name.

Today’s declarations
1. I won’t forget that I was saved by grace, nor will I refuse to share the good news with others so they can also be saved.
2. I won’t be silent nor will I keep from others, the salvation which I have known and experienced.

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