Humility and Healing

The Neighborhood Church

When some sickness, struggle, or brokenness puts us into contact with our limits, we have a choice. We can choose to stay stuck or we can look beyond ourselves for help. This is the relationship between humility and healing -- when we realize that we can't fix it all ourselves, we can humbly look beyond ourselves. It's really that simple... but it is not that easy. What might God do in our lives with this kind of humility, openness, and vulnerability? NOTES -- // SCRIPTURE FOCUS -- 2 Kings 5.1-19 // Is humility a dirty word? Or is it the antidote to self-centeredness and closed-mindedness? // 2 OBSERVATIONS -- 1. Notice the unnamed servants in our story = Your story matters 2. Notice the enemy outsider = No one's untouchable, God's grace reaches all. // In order for Naaman to be healed... - He must TRUST a foreigner - He must TURN to a foreign God - He must TAKE a simple bath (in a foreign place) // Our openness is the penultimate ingredient God uses for miracles (Paraphrase of Jose Humphreys in "Seeing Jesus in East Harlem) // Don't we all have pain under our armor? (The first step is to admit it, then we realize we're not alone in it) // Our vulnerability is the penultimate ingredient God uses for our healing // Shout-out to Rev. Joe Pool from FUMC Rockwall for his imagining of Naaman's "dip in the river" // To live humbly in faith is simple but it is not easy.