Day 302: Luke 16:18 - 18:42

In these passages, we read the story about the 10 lepers. Although there isn't a ton of focus put on this story throughout the Gospels, it's still a very important story to take note of. We see in this story a group of lepers coming to Jesus to be healed of their leprosy. Once Jesus heals them, they all go running back to their homes jumping up and down and celebrating the fact that Jesus healed them. However, only one of them was mature enough to go back to Jesus and thank Him for the amazing blessing that he received. We see that after this one came back to thank Jesus, He was told that not only was he healed like all of the others, but Jesus told him that he had been made whole! While the others we simply spared from having to deal with any future occurrences of the disease this man was actually made whole - meaning that any fingers or other appendages that had fallen off would be re-attached! Whenever God takes care of something for us, we oftentimes run off and just start living our lives again without giving a second thought to what God did, but if we will be faithful to come back and thank Him, we will oftentimes find out that the initial blessing was just the beginning and there is plenty more to come!

- Lord, help me to not just take for granted the initial blessing and turn from You the second I get what I want. I know that You want to bless us and make our lives whole and if we will be still and focus on You, You will have the full opportunity to do all that You desire in our lives. -