Go & Wash

There is something deeply human about the desire for the spectacular. We want the burning bush, the parting sea, the fire falling from heaven. We want God to show up in thunder and lightning, in a great ceremony of smoke and divine pageantry. Naaman, the great Syrian commander, was no different and his story, told with striking honesty in 2 Kings 5:1–15, holds up a mirror to every one of us who has ever struggled to find the sacred in the simple.