Naaman has the commander of the Syrian army, respected esteemed but had leprosy. On one of his conquest he met a little a Israelites girl, whom he took home to his wife. As the little girl heard about Naaman problem. She urged him to go to Israel to seek for help of which he did. Upon going to the king of Israel, he asks for help, and the king thought Naaman wanted to start a quarrel, and refuted; Am I God? I do not give life or take life. Sometimes, this is my anthem, I don’t give life nor take it.
Then Elisha heard of the king’s outburst and Naaman case; he came to Naaman and asked him to go wash himself in the River Jordan (to flow down). Now the Jordan water was not the cleanest, so Naaman complains that the Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Couldn’t I wash in them and be cleansed?” So, he turned and went off in a rage.
Now Abana and Pharpar as I said is river constructed with a split and a divide flowing upward. And healing comes down not goes up. As with Naaman, everyone thinks their own river is better. But it is not what we think it’s what God think and with this Naaman servant urged him that if it was difficult task, he would do task but a simple task he doubted it. Sometimes, it is the simple task we doubt. Naaman listened to his servant and got cured. Thereafter Gehazi went after Naaman to ask for 3000 price of silver and 2 changes which led him to be cursed with Lehman leprosy.
Healing is available for us today as the simplest things often carry the grace of God that bring healing, in Naaman case it was his leprosy. Elisha just gave a decree and Naaman was cleansed with an act of faith even still he had doubt.