"But Naaman went away angry and said, 'I thought that he would surely come out to me and stand and call on the name of the LORD his God, wave his hand over the spot and cure me of my leprosy'" (2 Kings 5:11-12).
Naaman was an army general with a terrible disease known as leprosy. It was a degenerative condition of the body tissues that literally caused the flesh to deteriorate to the point where limbs would eventually fall off in the advanced stages. It was a horrible and dreaded disease. Lepers were separated so as not to infect the rest of the population. It was suggested to Naaman by a young servant girl of the king's house that the prophet Elisha could heal him. Elisha sent a message to him: "Go, wash yourself seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will be restored and you will be cleansed" (2 Kings 5:10). When the instructions came as to what Naaman was to do, it seemed ridiculous to him.
God's ways are not our ways, and His thoughts are not our thoughts. Therefore some of the things that God tells us to do may not always make sense on the surface. We have to be careful about trying to "figure God out." God instructed Joshua to march around the city of Jericho seven times. Jesus told a man to put mud on his eyes to have his sight restored. Jesus told Peter to catch a fish to get a coin to pay his taxes. None of them questioned God, they just did what He said.
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