Pray the word with David Platt as a resource from Radical.net.

2nd Kings, Chapter 7, Verse 9.

Then they said to one another,

we are not doing right. This day is a day of good news. If we are silent and wait until the

morning light, punishment will overtake us. Now, therefore, come. Let us go and tell the

Kings household. I love this story. These four lepers and 2nd Kings, Chapter 7,

reason with each other, saying, if we stay in the city, we are going to die of famine.

If we go out to the camp of the Syrians who have surrounded us, then maybe they kill us,

which would be the same thing that is going to happen to us if we stay here, or maybe they

spare our lives, and we live. So, let us go out to the camp of the Syrians, and they do,

and when they get there, they find that the Syrians have left behind all of their stuff,

their tents, their horses, their donkeys, leaving the camp as it was. Verse 7 says,

and leaving all kinds of food and drink, and so these four lepers just start feasting on all the

Syrians left behind until they look at each other, and they say, we're not doing right.

This is a day of good news. We don't need to keep silent about this for a variety of reasons,

including some selfish reasons that they point to here, but when I read this verse,

I cannot help but to think about the picture here of four people so overwhelmed by the goodness

they have discovered that they can't keep it to themselves. Can I just say that one more time?

The picture here of people who are so overwhelmed by good news that they have discovered

that they cannot keep it to themselves, and so we pray based on this picture. God, we praise you

for the good news we have to feast on today, for your gracious provision, for your salvation

in our lives, for your mercy that's new every single morning, including this morning.

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