click to Read the passage: 2 Kings 5 (a new browser window will open)
Note: the simplicity of God’s expectation--faith and obedience.
v.10 1. God doesn’t ask for something we cannot do.
And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in the Jordan seven
times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean.)
v.10 2. What God asks may not be predictable.
God is God, He may not do His work the same way as before.)
v.10 3. What God asks may seem unreasonable.
(in the Jordan)
v.11 4. What God asks may not fit our expectations.
(But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold I thought, He will
surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the Lord his God,
and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.)
v.12 5. What God asks may appear illogical.
(Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of
Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a
rage.)
v.11, 6. God will ask us to give up our pride, to yield ourselves to Him to trust Him
alone.
13 (But Naaman was wroth, …)(…How much rather then, when he saith to thee,
wash, and be clean)
v.14 7. We can do what God asks.
(Then went he down, …)
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