The Syrians’ plan to starve Samaria into submission was working. The famine was bad…really bad! The city was besieged, all resources were depleted, and people were starving to death. An ass’s head was selling for eighty pieces of silver and a small measure of dove’s dung was selling for five pieces of silver. Some people had resorted to boiling and eating their own children. The entire city was empty emotionally, physically and spiritually. They were dying a slow miserable death.
Four outcasts, leprous men, decided to DO SOMETHING. Why should we sit here and die? We might die if we head out into the camp of our enemies but if we sit here death is sure. What do we have to lose? As they headed out of the city, their hopes were quickly realized when they stumbled upon an abandoned Syrian camp full of enough resources to feed the entire city!
This brings to mind the old Cherokee proverb of the two wolves. In each of us lives two wolves, one EVIL and one GOOD. They battle daily for supremacy. Which one wins? The one you feed.
Is the good part of you starving to death? WHY?
Is it because of adversity? NO
Is it because of someone? NO
Is it because of you? YES
Is the good part of you starving to death?
Do something about it.
And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?
2 Kings 7:3 KJV