Naaman 2 - Trusting God to work things out
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."
NKJV
This young girl from Israel, though separated from all that was familiar to her,
had chosen to respond with faith to her new situation.
She evidently had the wisdom to understand that only by trusting the God of
Israel, could life turn out well for her in Assyria. She probably understood
the principle outlined by the Apostle Paul in his letter to the Romans:
28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God,
to those who are the called according to His purpose....
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress,
or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ....
38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities
nor powers, nor things present nor things to come,
39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate
us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
(Romans 8 NKJV)
This girl knew that she loved God and therefore reasoned that in her new life
in Assyria she could trust Him to work all things together for her good, because
nothing that could happen to her would have the ability to separate her from the
love of God to whom she belonged and whom she trusted.
Prayer:
Father, help me to have the confidence in You that causes me to believe that
since I love You; and since I am committed to Your purpose for my life, that
You will indeed work everything together for good for me in this season of my life,
in Jesus' name,
Amen.
