When life centers around me, it will always be meaningless. When our work feels meaningless, you can always find meaning in it when you find God in it. No matter how meaningful your work feels, it can feel meaningless unless you find God in it. Jesus makes our work meaningful and sometimes does so in mysterious ways.

Naaman is one of the least likely people to find God, but God finds him. Naaman is a picture of faith and work and a face of growth. The hero in this story is a slave girl who forgives Naaman. God sends the message of salvation through the suffering servant.

What is the thing in your life that makes you feel unknown, isolated? For Naaman it was leprosy. But his leprosy became an occasion for finding God. Naaman looks for God in the way he learned how from his culture. But God is not an extension of our culture; he is the judge of our culture and our hearts. Naaman’s obstacle to finding God was pride. He tried to buy his way to God, but the deeper issue is the internal leprosy of Naaman’s soul—sin. We find God because he hunts after us.