Naaman got the word he needed, not the one he wanted. Sometimes you have to choose. What if the thing you want God to say is not the thing you need God to say? Will you still hear and obey? Naaman found this hard. He was offended culturally because he wasn’t treated as he felt he deserved. He was offended intellectually because generals are strategists, and Elisha’s orders were such patent nonsense. He was offended personally because he’d traveled for many days and the prophet had been unwilling even to walk to the door.
