Doing and Finding the One Thing Matthew 22:35-----
Doing and Finding the One thing - Matthew 22:35--- While meditating on the text this week from Matthew about the greatest commandment in the law according to Our Lord, I read this in the morning reading about Naaman who wanted to be cleansed from his leprosy. ( II Kings 5:9-19). He comes to Elisha's door and he is told to wash in the Jordan seven times. With that, he gets angry.He thought Elisha would come out and do something dramatic, " But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the Lord his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper." His servants tried to reason with him, " 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? " Seeing they were right, "Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of th...