0214. THE LITTLENESS OF GEHAZI.

THE LITTLENESS OF GEHAZI.

2 Kings 4.

Gehazi never shines in the sacred narrative. He is an illustration of what a servant should not be. He fails at every step.

I. Lack of Sympathy (2Ki_4:26). Why was she so curt with Gehazi. Was there an utter lack of sympathy? It is hard for selfish indifference to carry tender words without freezing them. A lesson for us servants of the Lord.

II. Lack of Imagination (2Ki_4:27). He was a slave to the proprieties. Poor, weak, phlegmatic, unimaginative soul! "The Lord hath hid it from me." Elisha was usually in the Lord’s secrets.

III. Lack of Faith (2Ki_4:29-31). Why send Gehazi? To arrest corruption or to bring life again? The vanity of all outward ceremonial is here evidenced.

IV. Lack of Personal Touch (2Ki_4:34-35). If we would be a blessing to others there must be close personal and sympathetic touch. This is symbolic of the closeness of approach to our nature, dead in sins, which the Lord of life makes in His Incarnation and continual drawing near to us. The day is coming in the Upper Chamber when parted ones shall meet.

Autor: James Smith