II Kings 5

There was a man named Naaman, a commander of the army of the kings of Syria, a mighty man with valor but unfortunately a leper (2 Kings 5). but a slave girl from the land of Israel told him that there was a prophet in her land that can heal him. Symbolically, we are also like Naaman – a leper, having a contagious disease which is sin. And like Naaman we need treatment and healing. So God intervened by using someone to come to Him. “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God (Romans 10:17)”.
Later of the story, Naaman asks permission to the king of Assyria to allow himself to go to Israel. And so he went and met the king of Israel. But the king rejected his request to heal him because he was not the God who heals and saved. But when Elisha the prophet of the Lord heard about him, he urge him to come to him. He advised him to go to the Jordan river and dipped his body seven times and be healed. But this made Naaman furius, because the things that Elisha told him to do was contrary to his thinking. Unfortunately, we too were like him. We insist to do our own and not heeding the admonition that God laid upon us. In the long run of the story we read that Naaman took a leap of faith and dipped himself in the Jordan river and was healed. And that made him confessed that there is no other god, but the LORD.
Naaman story was the same as ours. How he was saved was definitely like of us. We bring all our sorrows, pain and asked God to release us from the bondage of sin. In Ephesian 2:8-9 “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast”. Naaman was cleanse through the water and we also were cleanse by the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. Someone once told me why he believe that there is God, he said “ I believe in God not because of the knowledge he accumulated, but because of the great experience of forgiveness, the changing lives, and the salvation he has in Jesus Christ”.

W Medel