They Had Good News


Then they [the four men with leprosy] said to each other, “We’re not doing right. This is a day of good news and we are keeping it to ourselves. If we wait until daylight, punishment will overtake us. Let’s go at once and report this to the royal palace.” 2 Kings 7:9

Four unlikely men were in charge of good news. Who would believe them? They were considered unclean and had little, if any, influence in that culture. They were outcasts.

But they had good news. It wasn’t right that they were withholding the news, so they went to the palace to tell the king.

This is a great story, isn’t it? We can all learn from it because it has implications for sharing the Gospel in our culture (whatever culture that is) or any good news for that matter.

This is certainly a story that we can tell our children, but it can’t end there (as in, “if you had good news, is it right to keep it to yourself?”). You see, our children are watching us carefully to see if what we say matches what we do.

Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house.
Matthew 5:15

Pray and plan out some activities over the next month that will help you live out this verse. It shouldn’t be contrived or mechanical, but something that is natural and a result of the outflow of what is already inside you.


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