The reading of the day from the second book of the Kings (2 Kings 5: 1-15), about Naaman, rightly highlights something of ourselves whenever we interact with God. We 'want' God, but in our way, in our time and in our 'format'. Anything or anyone outside of this parameter, is not God! Naaman had his treatment planned out. He expected the Prophet to come out, pay homage to this 'military commander' and then do some sort of magic or miraculous ceremony by which his leprosy would disappear. Instead all he is asked to do is bathe in Jordan! God did not fit in his pre-formatted mind, hence he walks away in a huff.
God has His own ways, at times quite different from what we think or wish. To fit Him in our little understanding and expect Him to be just that little is perhaps trying to bonsai a century old grown up tree... neither the tree nor our dream survives!
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