The Flesh Of A Little Child

2 Kings 5:9-14 ESV
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.

God accomplishes His will in ways that often surprise us. He will move us to a place not of our choosing and work in ways that we find disagreeable, but then He told us His ways are not our ways. His purpose is carried out whether we are able to see it or not. We become clean only through obedience to His word.

Jesus said the kingdom belongs to those that become as a child. Humbling ourselves before Christ enables the shedding of the sin inherent in flesh. We become a child of God, no longer dominated by fallen flesh, but walking in His light.