As mentioned in an earlier post, our ten lepers cried out to Jesus to cure their horrible disease. They hoped he might cure them. Jesus healed the lame and the blind. Maybe just maybe, he would heal 10 lepers as well.
So our 10 guys meet the criteria for a person of Thanksgiving. They were ten desperate people crying out to Jesus for help. They were helpless on their own.
Jesus tells the men to go into Jerusalem and present themselves to the Priest. The writings of Moses gave instructions regarding leprosy. They had specific guidelines for determining if a person was infected and when these people were to be removed from society. But they also had specific instructions regarding what to do if a leper was healed. They had to go to the Priest in order to be declared free of the disease. No one had ever been declared free of leprosy. Many believed this would be a sign of the Messiah.
Jesus tells them to go and they go. The sores still cover their bodies as they move toward the temple, but they go towards the place where they will be declared clean. They walk hoping the sores will disappear. I suspect more doubt than belief fills them. They walk.
A spot disappears. Was it ever really there? The skin across their body regenerates as they walk. Where there was once oozing masses of flesh there is now clean healthy skin.
They know Jesus healed them now. They know the leprosy is healing.
Exercise
Be honest with yourself as the sores heal over what would you do?
Would you reaction be to walk slowly afraid the healing would stop? Would you be trying to rationalize how this could be happening? No one is ever healed of leprosy.
Would you rush to the priest to see if they would declare you healed? Not really believing it was true until the priest said it was so.
Or would you be afraid that if you didn’t go straight to the temple the healing would stop? Jesus said go to the priest. You skin is healing as you go. Shouldn’t you do just what Jesus said. Obedience seems like a logical reaction. What if you didn’t obey and the healing reversed itself?
Maybe you would rush home to you family instead of heading straight to the temple? You have been isolated and missing your love ones for years. You just want to hug them and hold them.
Would you turn around and run back to thank Jesus.
Try describing what you would do and why in your journal being as honest as you can be with yourself?
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