We must bear witness to our God anywhere

God had used Naaman's leprosy and was using his plight to bring him to a glorious encounter with the Lord and to bring him into a glorious encounter with the Lord, and to use him as an instrument and as a testimony of His Glory and His restorative Power to the nations including his own nation.

The passage we are discussing tells us that there was another person also with whom God was dealing and that God was using this person to be an instrument of communication of God's plan in Naaman's life. The Word says that: "Armed bands had come out of Syria" that had entered Israel, right? "And they had led captive from the land of Israel a girl, who served Naaman's wife." And this young slave girl who had been taken captive and dragged into the nation of Syria, of Israel said to her mistress: "If my lord asked the prophet who is in Samaria he would heal him of his leprosy."

I am interested in the figure of this slave, this young woman who had also experienced a terrible tragedy in her life. Imagine a young girl, we don't know how old it was when an armed gang had come, it seems like a group of terrorists, let's say sent by Syria, had entered the land of Israel and had taken this young woman captive and dragged her away. from her family land, perhaps from her loved ones and had been taken captive to Syria. How many years will this young woman have spent in captive Syria and separated from her nation.

And yet we see that God had a purpose for this young woman, the only time she appears in all of history. If this girl had stayed in Israel her whole life no one would ever have known about her existence. He would have lived life anonymous and without consequences than any other person of his time.

However, this girl has a moment as of glory that the Scripture records and for all the centuries this young woman, although we do not know her name, has a moment as of relief because God uses her to testify to Naaman's wife about which It is the solution to your dire situation.

In other words, this young woman was being reserved by God to play an important role in the process that we see here recorded in this Book. And she does not hesitate to let Naaman's wife know that there is a solution to her problem, and that that solution is in the God of Israel, Jehovah of Hosts, the Almighty God for whom Naaman's leprosy means absolutely nothing. .

So I see two things here: again, God often uses the times of tragedy in our life to do extraordinary things. The tragedy of this young woman, God would redeem her using her as a witness so that Naaman could receive the news that by going to Israel there he would find the solution to his problem.

So the first thing we see here is that we always have to ask ourselves: what are you doing, what possible reason is there for what is happening in my life? in situations of difficulties, of tests. Someone has said that we do not ask the Lord why I am going through this but for what and God is a detailed God, and everything that happens in our life has a purpose. As the Lord Jesus Christ says: "He who has eyes to see, see."

Many times our problem is that we do not look, we do not investigate, but we automatically reject the unpleasant situations in our lives and assume that it is the devil or that it is the circumstances, or the infidelity of God instead of saying: Lord, I know that You You are faithful, I know that You are in control of my life, I know that nothing happens outside the control of Your Will; teach me what it is that You are doing through this painful situation that I am going through and what You want me to learn, and how You want to use me to bless others around me through this situation for the which I am going through.

The second thing apart from God who is using a situation of tragedy to bless others, the second thing that strikes me about this image of this young captive slave is that she instead of renouncing God and denying Him, and saying: God allowed that this happened to me and I do not want to know more about God because if He had been with me, this terrible tragedy would not have happened to me that they dragged me from my native land, and sold me as a slave, instead of renouncing her faith and put her faith in God in a drawer, she does not hesitate to bear witness to the Lord.

And in her place of slavery she does not resent the people who have her as a servant but she forgives them in a sense, right? How important it is that we also forgive, that we do not fill ourselves with bitterness within our being for the things that happen around us, but above all that she does not deny her faith and tells her: I know where the solution to her problem is; Almighty God, the God of Israel can heal my lord Naaman and restore his health.

It is important that wherever we are we bear witness to our God. Sometimes when we are going through tribulations and trials we get quiet, and we stop serving the Lord, we stop doing good, we stop witnessing and worshiping and helping others, and I think one of the most Powerful things we can do in times of difficulty and trial is to do the opposite of what our flesh wants us to do and worship more strongly, go to Church more insistently, read the Word of the Lord more carefully, cry out and fast , and present our cause to the Lord, serve others, bless others as a prophetic action that by doing the opposite of what the unredeemed flesh asks of us, unleashes the power and movement of God in our lives.

Thank God that this young woman did not keep or hide her faith, but in the midst of her dire situation she gave testimony to Naaman's wife and her master that the God of Israel had the solution to her problem. Even when we are in difficulties and painful situations in our life, let us not stop doing good, says the Word, let us not tire of doing good, because if we do it, we will receive our reward in a timely manner, that is our faith.

Do not stop serving the Lord wherever you are, whatever your situation, do not put a parenthesis in your life of service to the Lord and worship the Lord but keep marching through difficulties and deserts until you you see the salvation of the Lord, and God will use you without a doubt and you will glorify the Lord in trials, and also in harvest times. God bless you and until our next meditation.