Gehazi! Sweet fool, Gehazi!
Gehazi! What have you done?
Not for food, or want of money,
but for pride you sold your God.
What might the Lord have done with you,
who washed the feet of prophets,
and with your eyes have looked upon
the armies of the Lord?
How many times were you entrusted
with the messages of God?
What glory might have been your portion
With Elisha’s cloak and rod?
But you never understood.
God’s glory is for glory;
His favor is by grace.
No gift can buy you honor;
No work replaces faith.
Edom despised his birthright,
and all his father’s hoard;
He traded his position
for some beans upon the board.
For what he did, he earned
the plain results of his despising:
because he hated his inheritance,
in his inheritance he was despised.
But you! Gehazi! Sweet fool!
As Moses, when he hit the rock,
taught the Hebrews to despise
the mercy and the graciousness
of Him who split the tide,
So you have taught the nations
that God’s kindness is for trade.
Now he must be proven just
and make his nature plain.
What good is God to Gehazi?
What good is gold to Simon Mage?
Since you trade for Laban’s leprosy,
his leprosy shall surely be your wage.
neumatikos 