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BBC Disability Ministry Blog » 2 Kings 5 Is for Parents of Kids with Disabilities - Part 4
4 Comments- Add comment | Back to Home Written on 11-Aug-2009 by john.knightsrPart 1 - In verse one we see God's sovereignty in Naaman's life.
Part 2 - In verses two and three we see God orchestrating really unusual things so that a powerless foreign slave girl can deliver good news to the powerful man.
Part 3 - We are reminded that a wealthy, powerful man desperately wants to be healed of his disease, and nobody thus far has been able to help him.
And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, which read, “When this letter reaches you, know that I have sent to you Naaman my servant, that you may cure him of his leprosy.” And when the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, “Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends word to me to cure a man of his leprosy? Only consider, and see how he is seeking a quarrel with me.”
Remember that Naaman is the commander of a foreign, hostile army as he approaches the king of Israel. We will learn later about some of his travelling party, but we should assume that he is travelling with a sufficiently large military force that the king of Israel would think twice before dealing badly with him, such as imprisoning or even killing him.
And the king of Israel assumes this isn't really about Naaman receiving healing, but about Syria looking for a reason to invade. After all, the king of Israel has just been asked to perform a miracle. If he had that power, he would be doing it for his own people who have leprosy. Since he can't, and the king of Syria certainly must know he can't, it must be about something else entirely.
Any parent who has sat in an IEP (Individualized Education Plan) meeting knows what the king of Israel is feeling. We are given reams of documents, most of which are unintelligible, by people with impressive credentials. And they frequently make no sense - just as this letter to the king of Israel made no sense to him.
So, like the king of Israel, I live with the suspicious thought that these IEP documents don't really mean what they say, that there is another agenda which results in their seeking to deny services to my son. I prepare myself for battle.
But my doubts about the authenticity of the message are not always confirmed - sometimes the agenda really is what is written on the paper. And sometimes it takes another person to help me see it. As we'll see in Part 5.
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