What God Willed, God Fulfilled.

"Go and Wash in Jordan Seven Times."

Naaman, an important man in Syria, was a leper (II Kings 5:1-15). His wife had a captive girl of Israel for her maid, and the maid told of one in Israel who could cure leprosy. Naaman lost no time heading for Israel! But when he came to the prophet of God, Elisha didn't go through some mystical "hocus pocus" to make an impression. He gave God's remedy in simple terms, "Go wash in the Jordan seven times." To Naaman this was foolishness, and he started home in anger and disappointment. But his servant persuaded him to reconsider: "If the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? How much rather, then, when he saith to thee, Wash and be clean?" So Naaman agreed, went down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan. "And his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean."
From the human pint of view, Naaman's reasoning was flawless: "Are not the rivers of Damascus better than all the waters of Israel?" But the power was not in the water of the Jordan River. The power was God. And that is the point. The Jordan didn't cure other lepers, as Jesus pointed out (Luke 4:27). But it cured Naaman, because God willed it.

And what God willed, God fulfilled