Kama Mbaya Mbay Part 2

It was a time of famine. Food prices were soaring and the only solution the political leadership was offering was to kill the messenger who predicted the famine, as if that would help. Death crept into the Samaritan city. The besieged residents had no hope left because stepping out meant slaughter by the Aramean army which surrounded the city walls.
Enter the four men with a terminal illness. They were left at the gates condemned to a life of seclusion and despair, begging for every meal. They had leprosy, which at that time had a stigma greater than HIV has today. This crisis pushed them to the limit. They had to act, or die.
Should they risk their lives and go to the enemy’s camp to beg for mercy, hoping that they would get some food? Better to be a fed slave than a starved man fighting for his freedom, they reasoned. Kama mbaya, mbaya, they arose and marched to the enemy’s camp. They had nothing left worth protecting. They were damned if they went and damned if they didn’t.
You can imagine the amazement imprinted on their faces when they discovered the camp deserted and tables laid before them laden with food they had craved.”He prepares a table before me in the presence of my enemies”, they must have thought. God had magnified their feeble steps and spread terror among the enemy.No sooner had they fed than they discovered the real purpose they were there, to save a city enveloped by despair. They didn’t hesitate to run back and share the good news.
Within one day, a city on the brink of death bounced back to life. Overnight , four men condemned to lurk in the lowest echelons of society became celebrities. All because they took those feeble steps.All because they took a risk which even the king was afraid of taking.Even after being being told of the empty camp, he still was reluctant to step out.
You too can save a city, you could be the solution to this present crisis. Only take those feeble steps, which God’ll then use. He used Moses’s rod because that’s what he had. He doesn’t ask for what we don’t have.That he’ll create.Only let him work with what you have.Kama mbaya, mbaya...he won’t forsake you when you act on His word. He has a name to protect, a name called I AM.I AM the answer to every question, the solution to every matter.
Elisha had predicted this deliverance. A royal official scoffed at his words. He paid a high price for his unbelief, death. Beware lest the same fate befalls you.

Background: 2 Kings 7