Today in Worship…we see God’s great restorative power at work in the unlikely candidate of Namaan. In 2 Kings 5, Namaan, a Syrian general, stood in great regard among God’s enemies to the north, for the Lord gave the Syrians victory on the battlefield. Yet Namaan was struck with a debilitating skin disease. Word came to the mighty general from a young servant girl, an Israelite that Elisha could cure him. Through this chapter we read of the gracious humiliation of the mighty general, who then worships the God of Israel…and the arrogance of Elisha’s servant, Gehazi, who seeks to profit as a prophet.
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