It’s
been a while!
Year 2015 appears to be flying with wings. It’s hard to believe
January is over already. I hope our goals are playing
out as planned and opportunities are surfacing. Most assuredly, we will all get
to our destination.
Many
at times, opportunities don’t come showcasing as opportunities. They are
sometimes embedded in difficulties, sometimes shrouded in mysteries and on few occasions,
they show up as impossibilities. It takes one to be discerning in order to grab
them when they come.
Answers
to prayers, solutions to problems, healings, and provisions sometimes come to
us in least expected ways and manners; hence before shutting a door and saying no
to something, make sure there’s not more to it than you see.
9Then Naaman went with his horses and chariot, and he stood at the
door of Elisha’s house. 10And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go and
wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored to you, and
you shall be clean.” 11But Naaman became furious, and went away and said,
“Indeed, I said to myself, ‘He will surely come out to me, and stand and call
on the name of the Lord his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the
leprosy.’(2nd Kings 5:9-11)
Naaman
was a big man yet he had a major challenge in his life. He was leprous! The solution
was coming in a “debasing” manner so to say. How can the solution to a long
lasting problem be so simple and “demeaning” to say the least? How can a
commander of the army be told to go wash in a supposedly dirty stream Seven(7) when
there were better and neater rivers back where he was coming from? it was a blatant No to the instruction he was given!
Just
like Naaman, sometimes we ask ourselves some of these questions over and again and we are quick to turn down whatever is not convenient. Whilst I am not saying we should say yes to everything that comes our way, sometimes we need to assess and reassess a situation before we nullify an offer.
How can I be told to be subordinate to someone who was many years my junior in school?
Why should I ask for direction from a colleague who got into the system many
years after I did. How can you tell me sowing a little seed can turn around my
finances? Why should I specially honor a pastor’s wife whom I was in school
with for many years? Why would I date a guy who I earn much more than? How can
a simple act of prayer be enough to deal with the issues one is facing in life?
Many
times we look for “great” signs and instructions in order to enjoy the “great”
blessings of life. God’s ways are different from ours. His thoughts and ways
are different; they may appear simple but they are efficacious; never failing
13And his servants came near and spoke to him, and said, “My father,
if the prophet had told you to do something great, would you not have done it?
How much more then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean’?” 14So he went
down and dipped seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man
of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was
clean (2 Kin. 5:13)
Just a simple
instruction and an act of obedience gave Naaman the break he needed in life.
What a relief for a problem he had been afflicted with for years. What a
reproach rolled away, what a fresh breath of newness. Just because He washed…….
Do you know Jesus as your Lord and Saviour yet? If you don’t, then say the prayers Here.
The Pen.
PS : Watch out for my post on Naaman's maid
