Just Do It!

Just Do It!


Naaman’s servants said to him, “if the prophet had told you to do some great thing, wouldn’t you have done it? So you should certainly obey him when he says simply to go and wash and be cured!”
2 Kings 5:13 NEW LIVING TRANSLATION


How much easier can it be? Just do it! In this story, Naaman, a king’s servant, had leprosy (skin and nerve disease that usually lead to death). Naaman was sent to see a great healer named Elisha. Being used to the pomp and circumstance of royalty, he expected a certain type of greeting from the host himself. Instead, he never actually got to see Elisha. All he received were a set of instructions from Elisha’s servant. The directions had three parts:

Go
Wash seven times in the Jordan
Be healed


I am a little like Naaman myself. I find it most difficult to simply trust God and do what he says. I figure, there has to be more to it than that, right? Everything in this life has value attached to it based on the amount of work you have to do to obtain it. We pay largely for things with value. The things that are free or nearly free are considered almost if not worthless. Besides, if you earn it, you can show it off to your friends and neighbors. You can show them what you did. Maybe I (or we) suffer so much because we have forgotten to simply do what God says, so we can be healed. Naaman’s healing was not in the Jordan, but in the obedience.

What has God asked you to do? Has God been needling you about a long overdue apology you owe someone? How about laziness or prayer or reading the Bible? Are you still blaming your problems on others and the past? Why not forgive them and be healed?
What has God asked you to do, so you can be healed? Just do it, and be healed!