M’lakhim Bet (2 Kings) 5:9-14
So Na’aman came with his horses and chariots and stood at the door of Elisha’s house. Elisha sent a messenger to him, who said, “Go, and bathe in the Yarden seven times. Your skin will become as it was, and you will be clean.” But Na’aman became angry and left, saying, “Here now! I thought for certain that he would come out personally, that he would stand, call on the name of ADONAI his God and wave his hand over the diseased place and thus heal the person with tzara’at. Aren’t Amanah and Parpar, the rivers of Dammesek, better than all the water in Isra’el? Why can’t I bathe in them and be clean?” So he turned and went off in a rage. But his servants approached him and said, “My father! If the prophet had asked you to do something really difficult, wouldn’t you have done it? So, doesn’t it make even more sense to do what he says, when it’s only, ‘Bathe, and be clean’?” So he went down and immersed himself seven times in the Yarden, as the man of God had said to do; and his skin was restored and became like the skin of a child; and he became clean.
Na’aman came with all the pomp and circumstance that bespoke of his position as a leader and general in the army of Aram. Elisha didn’t even answer him but sent a servant to give him the answer he was seeking. When that answer was something so normal as bath in the river Na’aman was incredulous and insulted but ADONAI when He calls us to service, He calls us in our weakness so that there can be no doubt that He called. For Na’aman he had to overcome his pride and conventional understanding, for Moshe he had to overcome his stutter, Yonah his hatred for a pagan people. ADONAI uses us in these times so that in our witness there can be no doubt who granted salvation. Lord let me recognize Your leadership in my life and follow without question or concern. I ask this in Yeshua’s name, amen.