And He Dipped...

Do you remember the old song we sang as kids-And his name was Naaman, and his name was Naaman, and he dipped and he dipped and he dipty, dipty, dipped, and he came up clean. We only said he dipped 5 times, but he really dipped 7.
In reading the Bible, I was reading about Naaman in I Kings 5. You remember he had leprosy. It was really bad! But there were so many people who helped him to find his miracle. There was the maid who was taken captive who told his wife. Then his wife told him, then the Kings and then Elisha and even Naaman's servant's played a part in his miracle. But what stood out to me in this scripture is when Elisha told Naaman to go to the Jordan river and dip 7 times, Naaman got mad. He got mad because the Jordan river was so dirty. He said why couldn't he tell me to dip in one of the other rivers that is clean? Then his servants said, if he had told you to do something great you would not have even questioned it, but here you are mad because he said dip in the dirty Jordan and you will come up clean. So Naaman did it and YES! He was healed.

How many times has God told us to do something and we get mad or upset because we don't want to do it. It doesn't make sense, it isn't what we want to do or how we want to do it, there has to be a better way. But if we will just simply obey God and do what He tells us, when He tells us, and how He tells us it works out so much better and we find our miracle. It is simple obedience. Hard as it may seem to us it is simply saying Okay, God, I am not sure why but I will do what you say! Then TADAH! Your miracle is there! I pray you and I can both be obedient to the things He tells us to do daily then we can rejoice together of our miracles.

So the next time you don't understand why just stop and sing this little song, and he dipped and he dipped and he dipty, dipty, dipped and he came up clean!!!!!!