After reading and becoming interested in and eventually following other blogs. I decided I had many things bottled up inside my head and heart that I should give this blogging thing a try. So here I am, a woman in my early 50's, entering a whole new world.
My passion is studying God's Word and every day he teaches me so much I can hardly contain myself. So my blog, I hope anyway, will bring glory to God simply be sharing why I love his book: the Bible.
I'll start with something I learned this week. I was reading in Luke 17 about the 10 lepers...well here is the story.
11 Now on his way to Jerusalem, Jesus traveled along the border between Samaria and Galilee. 12 As he was going into a village, ten men who had leprosy[b] met him. They stood at a distance 13 and called out in a loud voice, “Jesus, Master, have pity on us!”
14 When he saw them, he said, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went, they were cleansed.
15 One of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud voice. 16 He threw himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked him—and he was a Samaritan.
17 Jesus asked, “Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine? 18 Has no one returned
to give praise to God except this foreigner?” 19 Then he said to him, “Rise and go; your faith has made you well.”
As I read these verses, it occurred to me that we are are lepers. You and I are lepers until we cry out in despair the way these men did. When these men called to Jesus, their immediate need was to be made clean. That is true of people everywhere. We desperately need cleansing
from our sin. And when we call to him, he hears us and responds. We place our faith and trust in Jesus, the only one who can heal us from sin. He cleanses us from all unrighteousness. See 1 John 1:9 that says: If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
Ten lepers were healed that day, but only one returned to give thanks. I want to be like that one. I want to live a life of a thankful leper. I am so very grateful for all God has done in my life. His grace abounds in more ways than I could ever begin to share. I once was lost, but now I'm found, was blind but now I see. I was a leper who cried out for cleansing and Jesus set me free. What about you? Do you need spiritual healing today? Are you a leper in need?
