There are many testimonies in the Bible where people have been healed through their acts of obedience. One of them is Naaman who seeked out the man of God, Elisha, for healing.
If we are honest, probably most of us would be able to relate to his attitude during the process; annoyance that we’ve made the effort to take the journey to meet the ‘healer’ and he doesn’t even bother to come to us himself but sends some ‘random’ to instruct us what to do. And then the instruction is another offence to us- to go to a river- and not even one of the ‘better’ rivers like in our own country!
Naaman has with him gifts and gold to ‘buy’ his healing, but when the instruction for healing is simple and seemingly random and offensive to his mind, time and effort, this challenges the truth of his attitude and heart.
Thank God for those in our lives who are around us to challenge our ego and attitude with clear wisdom and the ability to cut through the crap. Naaman’s servants encouraged him to get over himself and just do it, and he was therefore healed- doing the simple act of a strange and offensive-to-him instruction.
As you read through the Bible and find healings it is interesting how there is instruction. It seems that most of them will have a cost or strange instruction, but not a cost with money that is easier to hand over, but a cost of getting over ourselves, submitting our own ‘intelligence’ to the Highest Authority of all intelligence, the cost of pride as we need to humble ourselves to do what would be ‘beneath’ us..
On the other hand, as we are reading about the healings in the Bible, we can also see that every healing is different, with different instruction after bespoke encounters of being healed. This shows that when we pray for healing, there is no formula of instruction. It is purely to obey what God is saying! This can also cause offence to us, cost us what we didn’t want to pay, and mean that we have to ‘get over ourselves’!
Every walk in life with God will cost us our pride and self-importance and mean that we must continually submit our whole selves (desires, expectations, intelligence, attitudes, etc) to God who is the Great Instructor and wants us to join Him on a wild and undomesticated trip!
Let us be servants of the Most High- like the slave girl who first set Naaman off on his journey with simple trust in Truth, and like the ones who went with Naaman were able to respect the instruction and get on with it.
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