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Discipleship Focus: Power
- Power: This is the natural outcome when we truly get our authority from the king. When our authority is from God, we are equipped with His power to accomplish His will. We act on His behalf in a world that He desperately loves.
While
this chapter is about Naaman and most people who study this chapter talk about
Naaman and Elisha, today I am going to focus on my favorite character of this
story. We have a humble slave girl. Naaman is an officer of the army, so it is
highly likely that this slave girl was captured during a battle. She was likely torn from her home when a
military struggle came to her area and she was on the losing side.
What this
means for this girl is that she is in the lowest position of society. She has no rights. She has nobody who really cares about her
needs because they are family. Granted,
she seems to have a good relationship with Naaman and his wife, but that’s from
grace in Naaman’s family not because it is culturally due to her as a slave.
However,
look what this slave girl does. She
understands her place with God. She
understands her relationship with God.
And she understands that just because she is a slave does not mean that
God cannot give her the power to speak truth into Naaman’s life.
That’s
exactly what this unnamed young girl does.
She tells Naaman about the prophet Elisha. She speaks up when culturally she should have
stayed quiet. This lowly slave girl that
was captured on some military excursion begins the process of bringing healing
in Naaman’s life simply by sharing truth with him. That’s what it is like to get one’s power
from God and not ourselves or the world around us.
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