Who’s Waiting on You?: Arise and Come Forth
The time is now. The time is now to what? The time is now to ARISE AND COME FORTH. Right now, someone may feel like they have been stuck in between a rock and a hard place. It may seem like that there has been nothing, but struggle on every side. It may seem like no matter what you do you, you are in a hard situation, but it is time to get up and make a move.
In 2 Kings 7:3-5 there were four leprous men who were in a hard situation. They were sitting at the entrance to the gate, “and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die? If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die. And they rose up in the twilight… when they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria, behold, there was no man there”.
The four lepers were stuck between a rock and a hard place. They were defiled and unclean according to Leviticus 13: 46 where a leper is considered “defiled; he is unclean”. The four lepers had to deal with the social effects being defiled and unclean such as having to be alone and not dwelling with the rest of the camp. Not only were they living with leprosy they also were in between a rock and a hard place.
The lepers were living in Israel which at the time was under attack. Due to the war conditions the food supply in the camp dried up. It had gotten so desperate that people resorted to eating their children. So their only option seemed to be starve to death or be killed by the enemy. Death was surrounding them on all sides and they had come to a place where they had to make a decision.
The lepers made a decision to rise up and face a difficult and uncertain situation. At that point they could not stay where they were at, because death was at hand. If they stayed where they were at then death would be certain. So they made a decision to arise.
Now is your time to arise and come forth. Now is your time for deliverance. When the lepers made the decision to go forth God delivered them. The lepers were delivered and then went back and helped the rest of the camp to be delivered. There are people waiting for you to arise and be delivered so that they can be delivered. No matter what situation you have found yourself in there is a way out.