Month: January 2026

But as one was felling a log, his axe head fell into the water, and he cried out, “Alas, my master! It was borrowed.” 2 Kings 6:5 Years ago, while working at summer camp, I was on maintenance duty one day when my camp pickup refused to start. Using our limited mechanical skills, a coworker…
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He went in and stood before his master, and Elisha said to him, “Where have you been, Gehazi?” And he said, “Your servant went nowhere.” 2 Kings 5:25 One of the greatest lies I told myself in my drug use, was that if no one ever found out, then I was hurting no one. Mine…
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But when Naaman had gone from him a short distance, Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “See, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not accepting from his hand what he brought. As the LORD lives, I will run after him and get something from him.” 2 Kings 5:19-20…
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In this matter may the LORD pardon your servant: when my master goes into the house of Rimmon to worship there, leaning on my arm, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, when I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon your servant in this matter.” He said to him,…
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So he went down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God, and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean. 2 Kings 5:14 With my life in chaos from the fallout of my opioid addiction – I’d jus…
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And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored, and you shall be clean.” 2 Kings 5:10 If you’ve been reading this blog over the last couple of days, you’ll not be surprised to learn that my wife and I are in…
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But Naaman was angry and went away, saying, “Behold, I thought that he would surely come out to me and stand and call upon the name of the LORD his God, and wave his hand over the place and cure the leper.” 2 Kings 5:11 Yesterday, I mentioned the magic wand that I think some…
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And when the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, “Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends word to me to cure a man of his leprosy?” 2 Kings 5:7 I spend a few hours every week seeing patients in our addiction medicine department,…
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But his servant said, “How can I set this before a hundred men?” So he repeated, “Give them to the men, that they may eat, for thus says the LORD, ‘They shall eat and have some left.’” So he set it before them. And they ate and had some left, according to the word of…
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One of them went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine and gathered from it his lap full of wild gourds, and came and cut them up into the pot of stew, not knowing what they were. And they poured out some for the men to eat. But while they…
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