Power

There’s a certain level of respect that people of a high-power position in society get. There’s a certain level of respect that people of a high-power position in society demand. And sometimes there’s a certain level of respect that people of a high-power position in society are denied. When that happens, people of a high-power position in society usually whine and say that their rights are being violated.

I really have no patience for it.

In this week’s Bible reading from 2 Kings 5:1-14, a high-power position person, the Aramean army commander Naaman, was sick with leprosy. He was desperate for healing. He was so desperate that he took steps to ask a prophet of Israel to heal him.  And he expected that he would receive the kind of treatment that a powerful person was supposed to get.

He didn't

Supposed to get special treatment because you're a powerful person? Please. That's not the way it works in God's neighborhood.