A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; OLD TESTAMENT STORIES

                                   AN INSTRUMENT FOR HEALING PART VIII

"I, Naaman, the commander of the army of Aram, was about to tell my servants that we are going back home.... I was so upset about the rude treatment of the prophet Elisha.... I did not think I could stay another moment here in this nation Israel.... First of all, I had the king of Israel tear his robes in my presence.... Then I had the experience of a prophet refusing to see me to perform his healing over me.... Only to be told by his servant to wash myself in his river seven times.... Seven times!!... How ridiculous.... Why would I have to dip myself seven times?.... Can I not be healed after I have dipped into the water just one time?.... But then my servants spoke to me.... They called me their father.... All of them consider me their father... And I feel I am their father.... So I calmed down.... They asked me to go to the river Jordan and wash myself.... May be I should go there after all.".... Please read the typed out attachment when you will learn that the servants of Naaman are able to persuade him to go to the river Jordan....


                  ATTACHMENT A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; OLD TESTAMENT STORIES
          
                                      AN INSTRUMENT FOR HEALING PART VIII

Naaman is about to leave when his servants begin to speak to him. Their care for him is very obvious from the way they address him as "my father." They are able to calm him down and go to the river Jordan after all as you can read in II Kings 5:13

Naaman's servants went to him and said, "My father, if the prophet had told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more then, when he tells you, "Wash and be cleansed?"

Naaman is still not convinced that going to the river Jordan is of any use but he is willing to give it a try for the sake of his servants.