Here is today’s Bible reading: 2 Kings 4:18-5:27;Acts 15:1-35;Psalm 141:1-10;Proverbs 17:23.

2 Kings 5:11-14 (NIV)  
    But 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. [12] Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than any of the waters of Israel? Couldn’t I wash in them and be cleansed?” So he turned and went off in a rage.
    [13] Naaman’s servants went to him and said, “My father, if the prophet had told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more, then, when he tells you, ‘Wash and be cleansed’!” [14] 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.

It is so like us to insist that God do things our way, as if we know best. I appreciate the fact that Naaman was alternately teachable, humbled himself, and followed through in obedience. As a result he experienced an outpouring of God’s power in his life. In what area of your life are you insisting that God do things your way, as if you know best? Will you follow the example of Naaman by humbling yourself and following through with whatever it is that God is calling you to do? An outpouring of his power is sure to follow.