When people demand bribe and generally act
in a corrupt manner, we fail to acknowledge greed in their action but easily “pass
the buck” to poverty. Today, we are introduced to Gehazi in chapter 4 and from
the little things to the big thing he did I can’t help but think he is naturally
just a bad person hiding under the shadow of a prophet.
Before Elisha could sentence Gehazi and his generation to an
eternity of leprosy, it was an accumulation of previous grievous faults (written
and not written in the bible) because I am sure Elisha had come a long way from
the Elisha in Chapter 2 who caused the death of 42 boys!
Gehazi shows us that not everyone working with a Man of God
is Godly. Gehazi also shows us that we should not label a ministry from the behavior
of the workers in that ministry. Even our lord Jesus Christ had a traitor/thief
among his disciples! Judas was there for a reason but I still wonder why Gehazi
was placed with Elisha.
Nobody is immune to the vices of the devil including people
working in the Lord’s vineyard; so we should be as careful when interacting
with them too.
We were charged to “test the spirit”; let’s not forget that.
SHALLOM!!!
