2 Kings 5:1 - Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man before his master and held favor because by him the Lord had given deliverance to Aram. He was also a mighty warrior, but he had leprosy.

Naaman, a man who is described in this text as the captain in the army of the King of Arma. This means he was second in command to the king. A man of great authority and position. A man who was great in battles, highly respected and of great courage.

Leprosy, a condition in which Naaman found himself with. He was able to give orders to do this or that or not this or not that, but he was unable to heal himself of this horrible disease.

One day while the Syrian troops were raiding Israel, they captured a girl, and she became a servant of Naaman’s wife. As time passed, the girl said to Naaman wife, “If your husband Naaman would go to the prophet in Samaria, he would be cured of his leprosy.”

When Naaman finally decided to go to see the prophet in Samaria he got an unexpected surprise. Instead of the Prophet personally coming to meet him and heal him, he sent this message to Naaman with these profound words “Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh will be restored to you and you will be clean.”

Naaman being who he was did not expect this type of response from the Prophet nor this way of being cured of his condition.

The blessing in receiving what is desperately needed from God is to obey. Not my choice, but by God's command is the way to what is needed by us from the Lord.

Naaman had the choice to obey what he was told by God's Prophet and live or remain in his diseased condition and die from it.

The choice that is before all of us on today is to live or to die. God's way or our way.

Not my choice! Is this your response to Jesus?

God bless.

Debra

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