Are you one of the Nine? Or the one?
Luke 17 v 11-19
Jesus asked “ Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine?”
A familiar story from the Bible. It tells of Jesus travelling towards Jerusalem along the border between Samaria & Galilee and coming across a village with ten men who were suffering with leprosy. Jesus heals them but only one of them returns to thank him and this one was a foreigner in the land.
Jesus appears to have been greatly disappointed when only one of the ten lepers who were cleansed returned to thank him and give praise to God. There is no evidence that Jesus revoked the cleansing. God isn’t like that. He doesn’t deny any of us His goodness even though we may take the gifts given to us for granted and thoughtlessly fail to give Him thanks.
The tragedy of ingratitude is that we may not hear the Lord say to us, as he did to the one who returned, “your faith has made you well”. So like the ungrateful nine we may not experience the full joy of His fellowship.
So are we “one of the nine”?
Do we take for granted the many gifts that God has given us?
Do we spend enough time thanking God and experiencing the full joy of fellowship?
Prayer: “Lord, So at the start of a New Year, I pray that I may be the one who thanks you and has an open heart to receive you.”
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