By Healthy for Life
Let God Do It His Way
“Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, Go and washin the Jordan seven times and your flesh shall be restoredand you shall be clean. But Naaman was angry….”
(2 Kings 5:10-11 the Amplified Bible)
So often we miss out on what God wants to do for us because He doesn’t do it theway we think He should. We work up an idea in our minds about how He’s going toheal us, for instance.We think He’s going to send some famous preacher to lay hands on us or thatHe’s going to knock us off our feet with a blast of His power. When He doesn’t, welet our faith drop and foul up what He had actually planned to do.That’s what Naaman did. He went to Elisha expecting to be healed in a particular way. When it didn’t happen that way, the Bible says he went away in a rage.What Elisha told him to do was simple.
Dip seven times in the Jordan
. Nammancould do that. But it didn’t fit his idea of how his healing should take place. Hethought Elisha would heal him by waving his hands around and calling on thename of the Lord.Namman stormed away and he would have missed out on his healing if one of hisservants hadn’t talked him in to giving Elisha’s instructions a try.I used to be like that. I wanted to see spectacular experiences from God so badly Iwas missing out on the experiences God had planned for me. Once I realized thatwas wrong and not according to scripture, I quit looking for feelings andspectacular manifestations and just started expecting God to keep his Word.I remember I went to a meeting one night with my ankle messed up terribly. Thepain was so severe it went from my foot all the way up to my shoulder blades. ButI went into that meeting expecting God to heal me.During the praise service I ignored that pain in my foot and just sang andworshiped with everyone else. When the preaching started, I got my Bible and gotinvolved in the Word. Sure enough, sometime during that service I was healed.I don’t know when it was. I didn’t feel anything. I didn’t see any sparklers go off. Ididn’t even realize I’d been healed until after the service. I got about halfway to thedoor and thought, Glory to God my foot’s well!
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