What to Do When You Don't Know What to Do

Good Morning,There are a couple of fascinating verses in 2 Kings chapter 7.  Verses 3-4 describe the predicament four lepers find themselves in.Now there were four men with leprosyat the entrance of the city gate. They said to each other, “Why stay here until we die? If we say, ‘We’ll go into the city’—the famine is there, and we will die. And if we stay here, we will die. So let’s go over to the camp of the Arameans and surrender. If they spare us, we live; if they kill us, then we die.”Samaria was under siege and had been for a long time.  So desperate was the situation in the city that people were driven to cannibalism.  Outside the city gates we find these four men, who being sick had been expelled from the city.  As they discussed their options they came to grips with their sobering dilemma.   I love how pragmatic they were in their assessment.  Option 1, if we stay here we die.  Option 2, if we go into the city there is nothing there and we die.  Option 3, if we turn ourselves in to the enemy we might die; yet there is a small chance they might let us live.I once heard the Rev. Bill Wilson expound on these verses and in doing so, ask the pointed question: “Have you been there?”  Life, during its most difficult seasons can put us in the same position as these lepers.  In those moments it seems like all our options are bad ones.Yet the lepers made one critical good decision.  They went forward.  They chose to take the only action they could, even though the prospects for a favorable outcome appeared bleak to them.  It is then in the story that we discover an incredible truth.   When the lepers arrived they were able to eat and drink of the enemy’s own food.  They even carried away silver, gold and clothes. I’m not sure how big their imaginations were, but I’d be willing to bet that this outcome was miles beyond what these men dreamed possible.Rev. Wilson made another important statement that perhaps even today, some of us need to take to heart.  He said, “When you don’t know what to do, when all your options seem grim, move forward.” Why? Because God is out in front. Where you are going He has already been.  He is in the habit of making a way where there is no way.Is it time to take a forward step today?

Live this week on purpose,

Ron

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