Over the past four weeks we have been talking about the Old Testament prophet Elisha and his sick (aka “awesome”) faith.

Elisha is known to have preformed a great number of miracles, second only to Jesus. One miracle that I mentioned but didn’t expand on in this series was that of Naaman.

Naaman was a respected commander of the army and he had leprosy. Read the story here.

Though Naaman gets the spotlight in the story of his miraculous healing, none of it would have been possible without a young unnamed girl. This girl, as part of the spoils of war, was taken from her homeland but she remained faithful to her God. We know very little about her except that she now served Naaman’s wife.

This unnamed servant girl knew that a prophet of God was in Israel. In verse 3, her simple sentence was actually a strong testimony of faith.

She said to her mistress, “If only my master would see the prophet who is in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy.”

She knew that where God was, there was always hope. She dared to think that God cared for all people and she had the audacity to inform her mistress, who in turn told Naaman. That simple, bold, courageous sentence would change their lives.

I find this story fascinating. Not only does God, through Elisha heal Naaman of his leprosy, but the entire story of Naaman’s cure is possible because of servants.

- A servant tells him about Elisha,

- A servant tells him what to do for a cure, and

- Naaman’s servants convince him to follow through with the instructions.

Almost everyone in this story is a servant to someone:

- Naaman to his king,

- A young girl to her mistress,

- Elisha to the Lord God.

And don’t miss this, in the end, Naaman becomes a servant to the true God.

You and I are also are called to serve. We are called to serve the one true God, our Lord. And like the young servant girl, wherever we are we can boldly testify to what we know—that our God is a God of love and grace.