Now bands of raiders from Aram had gone out and had taken captive a young girl from Israel, and she served Naaman’s wife.2 Kings 5:1-4



Now Naaman was commander of the army of the king of Aram. He was a great man in the sight of his master and highly regarded, because through him the Lord had given victory to Aram. He was a valiant soldier, but he had leprosy. 2 Now bands of raiders from Aram had gone out and had taken captive a young girl from Israel, and she served Naaman’s wife. 3 She said to her mistress, “If only my master would see the prophet who is in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy.” 4 Naaman went to his master and told him what the girl from Israel had said.



“Nameless Heroes Never Forgotten ”







We need great heroes to defend and fight for a nation. It is God’s grace that a nation has such heroes. Every nation owes greatly to such heroes. It is natural that such heroes left great names in history. However, the bible shows that very often a nameless person did an invisible but critical role in the history of God’s kingdom. The boy who brought five loaves of bread and two fished to the Lord Jesus and a woman who killed the vicious king Abimelech in the book of Judges with grinding stone are those nameless heroes. We see another good example of a nameless hero from today’ s passage. Naaman was a great general who was a hero for his own country. The king the people of his country loved him dearly. But great hero as he was, he had leprosy, which he could not overcome with his own strength. Then a slave girl taken captive from Israel came to his aid. Knowing that Naaman found no cure in his own country, the girl suggested to Naaman’s wife to see the prophet Elisha in Samaria. Naaman eventually received the healing through Elisha and began to worship God oof Israel. The highlighted characters in this episode are Naaman and Elisha. One is a great general. The other is a great prophet. But the bible reader can’t miss the work of names slave girl. Without her, the hero Naaman had no chance of meeting Elisha and healing. We do not know her name. But what she did was the same in nature what Joseph did when he was sold to Egypt as a slave. Both Joseph and the girl saved the country where they served as a slave. To God, the nameless slave girl must be valued as precious as Joseph. I believe this is how God shows the values of many nameless heroes. We don’t know the little slave girl’s name. But her name must be written in the history of heaven as life-saver. Christian history is full of these nameless heroes like the slave girl. One of my seminary professors had a Scandinavian heritage. He said his ancestor were Vikings. The savage Vikings ruthlessly invaded all over Europe thousands of years ago. They pillaged countless villages. They kidnapped many girls who were Christian. At the turn of the centuries, the girls who were kidnapped converted their kidnappers to Christianity. Similar stories abound in the history of faith. God remembers the names of many heroes of the bible. But He equally remembers the nameless heroes of faith such as slaves girls and kidnapped girls. What is your current life like? Are you perhaps living somewhat like a slave little girl or kidnapped women? does nobody recognize you and your work? Take heart. God knows. And God might use you as an ambassador of His kingdom there. Amen!