Jordan’s Simple Obedience

2 Kings 5:9-14 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read 2 Kings 5 in context

Scripture Focus

9So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha.
10And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean.
11But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.
12Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage.
13And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?
14Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
2 Kings 5:9-14

Biblical Context

Naaman arrives seeking healing, is told to wash in Jordan seven times; he resists at first, then submits to the simple command and is healed.

Neville's Inner Vision

Picture Naaman not as a man of import, but as your own consciousness caught in a storm of pride and longing. The prophet’s command to wash in Jordan seven times is not a deed to perform on a distant river; it is a directive to rinse the mind of familiar, stubborn identity. The river represents the ever-moving current of awareness within you. The \"go and wash\" instruction is your inner revision: let go of the notion that healing must come through grand gestures or external power. Humility—the servant’s appeal—becomes your recognition that no one outside can fix you; only your I AM, your inner awareness, can restore form by accepting a simple, repeated act. When you finally \"dip seven times\" in the metaphorical Jordan (a practice of consistent inner washing), your flesh, your sense of self, returns as a child’s, pure and unblemished. The grace here is not a miracle from without but the recognition that your state shifts when obedience aligns with inner truth.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Close your eyes, declare I AM clean now, and imagine stepping into Jordan’s waters until old self-forms wash away; commit today to one simple obedient act as a sign of your inner cleansing.

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