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  Faith is hard. I don’t know why it is, but it is. But when you stop and think about, each of us uses faith every day in almost every aspect of our lives. I have faith that when I step on the sidewalk, it’s going to be solid. We have faith that when I go to sleep, I’m going to wake up. We have faith in gravity and faith that our body is going to work the way it’s supposed to. I’ve always admired Doubting Thomas. I don’t know why he gets a bad wrap. He is like so many of us—he has trouble believing without seeing. Despite the fact that we exercise faith everyday, faith in God seems to be very difficult, and it’s not hard to see why, especially in light of the state of the world today. So, when Thomas demanded to see the nail holes in order to believe, he is really speaking the way many of us do. The beauty is, he didn’t actually need the nail holes to believe that Jesus rose from the dead. He only needed Jesus to offer to show him the nail holes. I am like Thomas. I suspect most of

Because I am discussing a full chapter here, I decided to post it below before proceeding with my lesson.   2 Kings 5: "Now Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Syria, was a great and honorable man in the eyes of his master, because by him the  Lord  had given victory to Syria. He was also a mighty man of valor,  but  a leper.  2  And the Syrians had gone out on [ a ]  raids, and had brought back captive a young girl from the land of Israel. She  [ b ] waited on Naaman’s wife.  3  Then she said to her mistress, “If only my master  were  with the prophet who  is  in Samaria! For he would heal him of his leprosy.”  4  And  Naaman  went in and told his master, saying, “Thus and thus said the girl who  is  from the land of Israel.” 5  Then the king of Syria said, “Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel.” So he departed and took with him ten talents of silver, six thousand  shekels  of gold, and ten changes of clothing.  6  Then he brought the letter to the king