2 Kings 5:1-3 Now Naaman was commander of the army of the king of Aram. He was a great man in the sight of his master and highly regarded, because through him the LORD had given victory to Aram. He was a valiant soldier, but he had leprosy. 2 Now bands from Aram had gone out and had taken captive a young girl from Israel, and she served Naaman's wife. 3 She said to her mistress, "If only my master would see the prophet who is in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy."

In this passage, there are two very important, yet very different people.

Naaman....he was a great man, he had a great name...he had a great calling on his life. he also had a great problem....He had leprosy. We don't have to deal with leprosy these days here in america....so it might be hard to understand just what he was going through...but we do deal with a different kind of leprosy...a kind we all know too much about and how debilitating it can be....its the leprosy of a messy life...of things not going as others think they should....its things that happen to us that make people run the other way....and it can paralyze us to the point of not being able to do anything productive. Naaman did his job, he was productive :)....while he was sick. He answered God's call on his life even though he was sick...even though he was afflicted. one of the things I have found is the greater the calling and annointing you have on your life, the greater the trials and hardships will be..

The girl in this verse was a prisoner held in captivity. she was a servant. She is also nameless. No where is scripture is she mentioned before this, or after this nor was she given a name. She was an {in}significant little mention in the Bible, just a moment in eternal history.....BUT she played a VERY important role . God used her. He used her as a tool for Naaman's healing. She also had a call on her life.....All she had to do to fulfill that call was to be available, trust God, trust that she could hear HIM and step out in faith with what she knew. I am thinking she was maybe just a little scared to go to her mistress and tell her what her husband should do. I know I would have been. She also had faith for Naaman, she did not shy away from her faith. She stood boldly and spoke boldly of her faith for him. She accomplished what God created her for and if she had not been obedient to what her purpose was....well, she just was :)

You may be a prisoner of something or someone....in captivity of some sort, you may be a servant to some one...you are not named personally in the Bible.....BUT.....You have a call on your life. YOU and I play a VERY important role in history....someone's history......all we have to do is be available, trust God, trust that you DO hear Him and step out in faith with what we know God is speaking to us. This is your moment in eternal history.....

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