Naaman 3 - Speaking the Blessing
2 Kings 5
1 Now Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Syria, was a great and
honorable man in the eyes of his master, because by him the LORD had given
victory to Syria. He was also a mighty man of valor, but a leper.
2 And the Syrians had gone out on raids, and had brought back captive a young
girl from the land of Israel. She waited on Naaman's wife.
3 Then she said to her mistress, "If only my master were with the prophet who
is in Samaria! For he would heal him of his leprosy."
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Because this young girl had the confidence to trust that God was working out
all the unexpected events in her life for her good, she looked around to see
how she could be a blessing to those in her new environment.
The first thing she saw was that her new master, General Naaman, had an incurable
skin disease.
She remembered that God's Prophet in Israel was a man renowned for his miracles.
So she bravely made the suggestion to her mistress, Naaman's wife, that if Naaman
could only go and see the prophet in Samaria, that the prophet would heal him of
this dread disease.
Naaman had probably tried all the remedies of the time without success, and by
this time he and his family were willing to try anything to get some relief.
This young girl could have been filled with all kinds of fears in her new home,
but because she trusted God and was fearless, instead of her thinking being
crushed by fear, it was instead liberated by her faith, and so she had the
confidence to speak boldly and be a blessing in so doing.
Is your thinking limited by your fears?
Or are your thoughts liberated by your faith and confidence in the goodness of
God in your life?
God wants you to follow the advice of the Apostle Paul to the Galatian Christians
in chapter 5 of his letter:
1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do
not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
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It took great courage for her to speak up the way she did, but she was determined
to be a blessing in her new home.
Prayer:
Father, today I renounce the bondage of fear-filled thinking, and I put my faith
and confidence in You, and I will live in the liberty by which Christ has made me
free. I will be a blessing to those around me.
Thank You, Lord Jesus, for purchasing my freedom by Your death and resurrection,
Amen.
