speak up

Sunday October 10th, 2 Kings 5: 2 Now bands from Aram had gone out and had taken captive a young girl from Israel, and she served Naaman's wife. 3 She said to her mistress, "If only my master would see the prophet who is in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy." The young slave girl simply spoke up and told a part of her story. She was not in a great position in life having been taken as a slave. She could have spent her time and energy focus on her plight and on how it really wasn’t fair or just. Instead her focus is on the power and love of the God she serves. Her response sends the heads of power into motion. In this world she had no power that anyone could see, she was a young slave girl, and yet her voice carried wisdom and touched the seed already planted by God. How often do we keep silent because we don’t feel we have the wisdom or power to speak or do anything? In keeping silent, perhaps what we are succeeding in doing is keeping dormant the seeds that God has already planted. We are not the ones that cause faith to grow, we simply direct it to a little sunlight and watch what happens.