Naaman's grateful attitude

(Audio: Spanish)

SUMMARY: After Naaman is miraculously healed, he humbly presents himself before Elisha and recognizes him as his spiritual authority. The Holy Spirit continues the story to show Naaman's change in attitude and willingness to submit to authority. The author encourages Christians to submit to legitimate authority and not be demanding or critical. He shares an example of a sister who left the church because she did not like a comment the pastor made about her favorite presidential candidate. The author concludes by discussing the importance of integrity in God's servants, which will be the topic of the next meditation.

We have here this presentation of how God deals with Naaman and subjects him through this long-term process, diving in many times, breaking his pride. God I imagine that He was not only cleansing Naaman's flesh with each time he stepped into the water but was cleansing his heart, his mind, doing a work of breaking and promoting humility and submission to God's methods before Him.

What happens after the center of the text is sometimes as fascinating and as important as what happens before to some extent. We see here that ok, after Naaman is miraculously healed the chapter could have ended at that point. Ok, he dived seven times and the seventh time his flesh became as clean as a child's, period and today we could discuss this text and get the most out of it.

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