My ways are not your ways, nor are My thoughts your thoughts

(Audio: Spanish)

SUMMARY: In the story of Naaman, God humbles him and breaks his pride by instructing him to wash in a simple and humble river, rather than in more grand rivers. God often uses simple and humble means to perform His miracles and looks at the heart, rather than external appearances or credentials. Christians should learn to think in a different way and have a mind that reasons as the Spirit of God does, in order to be open to what God wants and for Him to work in their lives.

God takes Naaman's life and takes it through a process. God not only wants to heal this noble and influential man but he also wants to do other things in his life, he wants to deal with him and that is why we see that he submits him to this treatment.

The prophet Elisha discerns this pride, this secular arrogance that Naaman brings and this expectation of being treated in a preferential way, and special because he is the great general representative of an entire powerful nation, and wants to teach Naaman that God is the Lord of all the Earth, and that anyone who approaches Him must approach with humility, and with simplicity of heart.

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