Live Right and People Will Listen

[394 words] In 2 Kings 5, a very familiar story of the Old Testament is recorded. Naaman was the commander of the army of Syria – an enemy nation of Israel. He was a mighty man of valor, but he also suffered from leprosy. After one of his raids, he brought back a young Israelite girl to be a slave for his wife. She must have felt very alone being forced into servitude in a foreign land. We know “the rest of the story” very well – of how she informed them of a prophet in Israel who could heal Naaman of his leprosy. Curious, he got permission from the king of Syria to go and see if this was true. When he found the great prophet Elisha’s house and inquired, Elisha sent a messenger to him and informed that if he would dip in the Jordan River seven times,…