The Cleansing of Naaman

July 6-12: 2 Kings 5:1-14

Unto a mighty man of God

A man of valor came,

To ask the Lord to heal his wounds

And Naaman was his name.

Once a man of noble strength

Now pleading for a cure,

He came with hope that Israel’s God

Could make him clean and pure.

So at the prophet's door he told

The story of his grief,

And from the house the prophet sent

Instructions for relief.

Promising if down into

The Jordan he would go,

He’d be made clean, as there he washed

Within the rivers flow.

Offended by the prophet's words

Expecting something grand

The prophet should have done to show

The power of God's hand.

But such a task he couldn’t bear

For shame he’d rather die,

And thus in rage he left the place

His council to defy.

But near his servant drew to him

A question to demand,

“Had the prophet asked of thee

To do ye something grand,

Would you not have done the thing

Whatever He had asked,

Then why refuse to do instead

A small and simple task?”

So to the Jordan Naaman went

And thus his faith was seen,

As there he washed the seven times

And rose up pure and clean.

Sometimes it is the simple things

That offer us relief,

Most often it's in quiet ways

Our God will heal our grief.

Sometimes it is the little acts

That bring the Master's balm,

The simple things He asks of us

Can bring a tender calm.

When I seek the healing that

I know the Savior brings,

Might I think of Naaman's tale

And do the simple things.

© Julianne Young 2026

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