Naaman said,
"Your servant will no longer offer sacrifice
to any god except the Lord."
2 Kings 5:17
Naaman was a foreign general. He was also a leper. Wanting his general back, Naaman's king sent him to Israel to find a true man of God and a true healing.
Through Elisha, God healed Naaman. But pride almost kept the general from it.
Elisha gave Naaman a simple task of obedience, a humble task of submission. Generals don't like to submit. They like to give orders rather than obey. So do we.
God could have healed Naaman immediately without any water from the Jordan. But it was the permanent condition of Naaman's heart -- rather than the temporary condition of leperous and rotting body -- that God was most concerned about.
In humbling himself, Naaman found physical healing. He also found spiritual healing. When he cried, essentially, "There is no other God except the Lord," he was externally healed and eternally free.
In Christ's Love,
a four star general
(I too often want to go my way
than submit to God's)
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