Tuesday, November 11, 2025
Humility leads to God!
"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts" ( Isiah 55:8-9).
Pride can make us miss many things. There is a story of Namaan, a "commander of the army of the king of Aram. He was a great man in the sight of his master and highly regarded, because through him the Lord had given victory to Aram" ( II Kings 5). However, for all his accomplishments Namaan had a condition of leprosy, quite incurable then.
Now there was a maid in the house of Namaan from Israel and aware of a man of God called Elisha. She took the initiative to advise her master to go see him for healing.
But being a General, Namaan had grandiose expectations of a man of God. On reaching Elisha advised him to go back and wash seven times in the river Jordan for his healing. Namaan was enraged. "Naaman went away angry and said, “I thought that he would surely come out to me and stand and call on the name of the Lord his God, wave his hand over the spot and cure me of my leprosy" (v 13).
Namaan’s folly was pride. What saved the day was that in his camp he had those who urged him not to ignore Elisha's humble request. "So he went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times, as the man of God had told him, and his flesh was restored and became clean like that of a young boy" ( vv 14).
Namaan was just about to miss healing because of his inflated ideas about himself and God. He worshipped his title and expected God to acknowledge him. But God was unmindful of all. At first he spoke through a maid to convince her master to go and see a man of God. And when he met him, Elisha had quite a humbling request which Namaan reluctantly obliged to. Lesson simple-pride can let you down!
Prayer today: Lord Father God of Abraham, maker of heaven and earth, as you hate pride today I come to you humbly asking to let your will be done in my life, this I pray in Jesus's name.
