Hello As One Family,
Hope everyone is enjoying the beautiful weather we are having, it looks like summer has officially started.  I pray that everyone is at peace or least seeking to find it in our Lord who is indeed merciful and loving, always desiring our dependency upon Him to provide what we need.  Hopefully this devotional will encourage that!
(2 kings 5 vs1-7)-In context from vs 1, Naaman is a distinguished captain of the army of King Aram and highly respected warrior but was a leper, and has been referred to Elisha the prophet for healing by a little Israeli girl working for Naaman’s wife……
2 Kings 5:8-15

8 But when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, he sent to the king, saying, “Why have you torn your clothes? Let him come now to me, that he may know that there is a prophet in Israel.” 9 So Naaman came with his horses and chariots and stood at the door of Elisha’s house. 10 And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored, and you shall be clean.” 11 But Naaman was angry and went away, saying, “Behold, I thought that he would surely come out to me and stand and call upon the name of the Lord his God, and wave his hand over the place and cure the leper. 12 Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them and be clean?” So he turned and went away in a rage. 13 But his servants came near and said to him, “My father, it is a great word the prophet has spoken to you; will you not do it? Has he actually said to you, ‘Wash, and be clean’?” 14 So he went down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God, and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.

*Personally I am continously learning that all of my presumptions I make about God, and what He may do (or what I think He should do) He then uses my arrogant presumptions to humble me and learn dependence.
*Notice these two principles in the healing “process” of Naaman
*(vs11-13) God shows us through the “process” of how Naaman must be healed, that He is concerned more with our Character (Christlikeness) than anything else we may think-(1 Thessalonians 4 v3)
Independent of God=Pride/self-centerdness

*(vs14) The ultimate goal of God through the process of healing is to strip us of pride constantly, and to recognize that true healing comes by humble submission to God’s ways and not our own-(1 Peter 5 v5-7)
Dependent upon God=Humility/Christlikeness