STEWARDSHIP WEEKEND
“Please let me, your servant, have two mule-loads of earth.” (2 Kings. 5:17). What a curious request we hear at the end of this Sunday’s first reading. Elisha, the great prophet in Israel, had just cured Naaman, the great army commander of the Arameans, of leprosy. Why would Namaan want this pile of earth from Israel? You will recall that the people at that time believed in local gods. They believed that these local gods ruled over particular lands. That’s why various Old Testament books speak of the gods of […]