WHY SIT HERE AND DIE

We all must make decisions every day.  Some days not only is the decision of utmost importance but the decision process can be so complicated that we delay resolution and vacillate between the EASINESS OF DOING NOTHING and the URGENCY OF ACTION.  Whatever decision you are facing today, I would dare say it is not nearly as dire as the one facing four lepers in Samaria.  Perhaps there is a great lesson to be learned from their desperate reasoning.

2 Kings 24:25 And there was a great famine in Samaria and indeed they besieged it until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty shekels of silver and one-fourth of a kab of dove droppings for five shekels of silver.

The army of King Ben-Hadad of Syria had besieged Samaria.  There was a great famine in Samaria and due to the Syrian occupation no goods or food could come into the city.  It was so bad that donkey’s heads and dove’s dung were being eaten and some had even resorted to cooking their own children.  Yes, I would say not one of us has ever faced these decisions.

2 Kings 7:3-4 Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate; and they said to one another, “Why are we sitting here until we die? 4 If we say we will enter the city,” the famine is in the city and we shall die  there.  And if we sit here, we die also.

The four lepers, which had been banished to an area outside the city were also starving to death. It finally dawned on them, “We are going to die out here.  If we enter the city and there is no bread, we will die there, BUT what if?  WHAT IF we find bread?”  They MADE THEIR DECISION and entered the city.  Approaching the camp, they found the Syrians had not only deserted but left plenty of food, tents, horses and other provisions.

NOW, about that decision, over which you’ve been doing “mental gymnastics”…WELL IT’S TIME!  MAKE THE DECISION!  Satan would love to keep you “betwixt and between;” trapped in a state of confusion.  If he can prevent you from coming to a decision on the important matters in your life, nothing will ever be accomplished.

The scariest thing about finally making that decision is “WHAT IF I’M WRONG?”  You can stay in the VALLY OF UNCERTAINTY and DIE..OR get up and move forward into the “city”.   You have no idea what God has prepared and waiting for you there.  MAYBE…just maybe you will find bread.  BUT at least you won’t die without trying.