Eucharist

The prophet sent him the message: "Go and wash seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will heal, and you will be clean."

But Naaman went away angry, saying, "I thought that he would surely come out and stand there to invoke the LORD his God, and would move his hand over the spot, and thus cure the leprosy. Are not the rivers of Damascus, the Abana and the Pharpar, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them and be cleansed?" With this, he turned about in anger and left.

But his servants came up and reasoned with him. "My father," they said, "if the prophet had told you to do something extraordinary, would you not have done it? All the more now, since he said to you, 'Wash and be clean,' should you do as he said." So Naaman went down and plunged into the Jordan seven times at the word of the man of God. His flesh became again like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
-2 Kings 5:10-14

Do we sometimes expect more to be done or expect more to be asked of us for so great a reward as salvation? With an act as seemingly simple as consecrating the bread and wine to turn it into the body and blood of Christ, many take it for granted. I try to remind myself everyday what the Eucharist really is, so I can be cleansed internally the way Naaman was cleansed externally in the story above.