2 Kings 5:2-3
“At this time the Arameans had gone out in bands and had taken captive a young girl from the land of Israel. As a slave she waited on Naaman’s wife. She said to her mistress, ‘If only my master would go to the prophet who is in Samaria, he would cure him of his leprosy.'”
We do not even know her name. She was young, far from home, and living as a slave-servant in the house of the man whose army had taken her captive. Yet her suffering had not destroyed her faith.
She could not heal Naaman, but she knew where to send him. Her simple sentence eventually led Naaman to say, “Now I know that there is no God in all the world except in Israel” (verse 15).
I wonder if that young girl ever realized what her few words accomplished. It reminds us that we do not need an important position to have an important influence. God took one faithful person, one conversation, and one small act of faith and used it to change someone’s life.
Prayer: Lord, help me faithfully point others toward You, trusting You to use even my small influence.
I’m Lonnie Davis, and these are thoughts worth thinking.