God who saved Naaman

Through Naaman, God had given victory to Aram (2 Kgs. 5:1).

As a result, Naaman became a great man in the sight of his master,

the king of Aram, and highly regarded (v. 1).  But he had leprosy (v. 1).

“Now bands from Aram had gone out and had taken captive a young girl from Israel,

and she served Naaman's wife” (v. 2).

God used her to tell her master Naaman’s wife

“If only my master would see the prophet who is in Samaria!  

He would cure him of his leprosy” (v. 3).

As a result, Naaman went to Prophet Elisha (v. 9).

However, unlike what Naaman thought that Prophet Elisha would do for him (vv. 11-12)

Prophet Elisha sent a messenger and told Naaman,

“Go, wash yourself seven times in the Jordan,

and your flesh will be restored and you will be cleansed” (v. 10).

However, Naaman eventually obeyed what “the man of God had told him”,

And his flesh was restored and became clean like that of a young boy (v. 14).

As a result, Naaman knew that “there is no God in all the world except in Israel” (v. 15).

And he determined that he would never again make burnt offerings

and sacrifices to any other god but the Lord (v. 17).

God saved Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Aram.

God who made Naaman to save Aram saved not only Naaman’s leprosy but also his soul.

[God who saved the Gentile Naaman in the Old Testament saved the Gentile Cornelius in the New Testament (Acts 10)].