THE TURNING POINT
IV
Memorise: He that loveth silver shall
not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this
is also vanity. Ecclesiastes 5:10
Read: 2nd Kings 5:15-20,
Bible in one year: 2nd Samuel 5:1-7:17, Mark 11:20-12:12
Gehazi was the servant of Prophet
Elisha. He was privileged to be the apprentice of a great prophet and had the
potential of inheriting at least thedouble portion of Elijah’s power that was
upon Elisha. However, his covetousness ruined his destiny as a would-be great
prophet. He decided to got after the material things of this world at the
expense of his prophetic calling. He was so determined to go after worldly
things that he even swore by God that he must “possess his possessions”. Like
present-day worldly preachers, he seemed to be saying:”….. after all, he that
labours by the altar must feed by the altar.” Consider his words in 2nd
Kings 5:20:
“But
Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master hath
spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought:
but, as the Lord liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him.”
Once his son of covetousness was found
out by his master, the leprosy of Naaman was transferred to him and all his
generation after him (2nd Kings 5:27).
Judas
Iscariot is another individual we should learn from. He had almost the same
moral and spiritual problem as Gehazi: covetousness and greed. The Bible says
he was a thief, and being the treasurer of Jesus’ ministry, he often stole from
the purse (John 12:4-6). His greed got to the level where he took a decision
that condemned him to eternal perdition: he decided to sell his Master, the
King of glory (Matthew 26:14-16). Before Judas Iscariot realised his folly, he
had already ruined the opportunity of having himself numbered among the twelve
apostles. He ended up committing suicide.
“Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that
he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of
silver to the chief priest and elders,… And he cast down the pieces of silver
in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.”
Matthew 27:3&5
Children of
God in the 21st century must be wary of materialism. It is deadly;
through it may not look that way. This is why John the Beloved warned us
against worldliness, as if he knew what would become of the Church in the
end-times (1st John 2:15-17).
Prayer Point
Father, guide me never to take a wrong
decision that will blight my future in Jesus’ Name.
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