Good Morning Friends,
"Ten men who had leprosy met him. They stood
at a distance and called out, 'Jesus, Master, have pity on us!' When he saw
them, he said, 'Go, show yourselves to the priests.' As they went, they were
cleansed. One of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a
loud voice. He threw himself at Jesus' feet and thanked him -- and he was a
Samaritan. Jesus asked, 'Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine? Was
no one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?'"
(Luke 17:12-18)
Sometimes saying "thank you" is hard
to remember. I'm sure all ten lepers were thankful. But they needed to get to
the priest and be declared clean by him. That was required before they could
reenter public life. They probably had wives and children, mothers and fathers,
they wanted to see them. The things that occupied the attention of the nine
lepers were not trivial things, they were really important things. It's not
that they weren't thankful, they were just preoccupied with important things.
The one who came back to say thank had
important things to do, too. He needed to get to the priest, too. He probably
had a wife and children, a mother and father that he wanted to see. It wasn't
that he didn't have anything better to do than go back to Jesus and say thank
you -- it was that he considered saying thank you important enough to interrupt
the other important things.
Most all of us know how important saying thank
you is. Our mothers and fathers taught us that -- and most of us did it easily
as children. But we're not children anymore. We don't have mothers and fathers
to remind us. We don't have to follow their rules any longer. Saying thank you
is easy to forget and easy to put off till a more convenient time. One
considered it important enough to do right away -- and Jesus was pleased!
I think I'll try to remember to say thank you
to the Lord more often!
His, by Grace, Steve
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