Our Sunday school class has been studying 2 Kings chapter 5. Naaman had Leprosy. I'm guessing he had tried everything to cure his ailment and had become desperate for healing. A servant girl said there was a prophet that would heal him so he went to him.
Naaman, with his horses and chariot stood at the door of Elisha the prophet. Elisha didn't go out to him but rather sent a servant to tell him "Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored to you, and you shall be clean."
Naaman was furious. He expected some grand announcement, a waving of the hand and something a little more flamboyant. He said, "Are not the rivers elsewhere better than all the waters of Israel? Couldn't I wash there and be clean?" So he left in rage.
A servant came to Naaman and said, "If the prophet had told you to do something GREAT would you not have done it? How much more then, when he says to you, wash, and be clean?"
It didn't make sense to him. It didn't seem logical. He couldn't understand how that simple action could be what he needed to do BUT...he washed as he was told and his health was restored.
Problems don't go away just because we choose to ignore them. We only compound problems when we are prideful and try to come up with 'our' plan rather than God's simple one. Sometimes God sends us a message through others and often that message is simple, but it will require us to be humble and submit to God's authority.
The simple instructions given by the Spirit through others may be just the thing we need to do for restoration.
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Amen!
Good post! And the hardest thing so many of us wrestle with is...PRIDE. We will be willing to do just about ANYthing but humble ourselves before the Lord and others. And yet that is where we find incredible blessing.
Very well said.
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