Faith, Obey the Word

Naaman became angry because the prophet’s direction seemed too small for someone like him. He expected a healing marked by honor, movement, and greatness. He received a simple word: wash in the Jordan.

In 2 Kings 5:13-14, his servants helped him see something important. If Elisha had asked him to do something difficult, Naaman might have accepted it. What wounded his pride was the simplicity of the direction.

This also happens to us. Many times, we ask God for an answer, but resist when He calls us to obey in something ordinary. Asking for forgiveness. Returning to prayer. Opening the Word. Admitting that we need help. Leaving behind an attitude we know is wounding the soul.

Faith does not grow when we try to keep control of everything. It matures when we trust what God has said, even without receiving a full explanation.

Naaman had to go down into the river. That act touched more than his disease. God also dealt with his pride. Healing came in the path of obedience.

Today, pay attention to what God has already shown. The next step may look simple in your eyes. Still, if it comes from the Lord, it needs to be taken with faith.

13 And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, [if] the prophet had bid thee [do some] great thing, wouldest thou not have done [it]? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?

14 Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.