The humiliated commander was furious. Fortunately, his servant, Gehazi, said, ‘‘If he had asked you to accomplish a near impossible task in order to gain your healing, would you have done it? He is simply asking you to do something easily attainable. Isn’t it worth a try?’’14 With that, Naaman hitched up his pants and promptly waded in. He dipped his afflicted body under the current, and with each completed dunk something of him drifted downstream . . . a little of his pride. Every time Naaman’s head broke the water, God broke down his conceit. By the seventh dip, the work in him was
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