Happy Thanksgiving!!!!
I hope that everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving!!!!!!
Here is a great message for this time of year....Thanks Heath!
A little thanksgiving perspective....
A four-year-old boy said he was thankful for his glasses. "Why?
someone asked him. "Because it keeps the boys from hitting me - and the girls from kissing me."
TO BE "THINKFUL"
To be "Thinkful" is to be Thankful. If you think about things, you can thank God for them!
Luke 17:11-19
Jesus Cleanses Ten Lepers
"On the way to Jerusalem he was passing along between Samaria and Galilee. And as he entered a village, he was met by ten lepers, who stood at a distance and lifted up their voices, saying, 'Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.' When he saw them he said to them, 'Go and show yourselves to the priests.' And as they went they were cleansed. Then one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice; and he fell on his face at Jesus' feet, giving him thanks. Now he was a Samaritan. Then Jesus answered, 'Were not ten cleansed? Where are the nine? Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?' And he said to him, 'Rise and go your way; your faith has made you well.'"
Lepers: Basically lost their entire lives...to be a leper was to be unclean...was to be separated from your family and friends and loose all financial and social status...They lost everything!
Vs. 13 they cried out to Jesus, "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us."
We all know that they wanted to be healed...and what does Jesus do?
Vs. 14 "Go and show yourselves to the priests."
Now why would they want to do that...the priests were the ones who pronounced them unclean, why would they want to go back just to be pronounced unclean!
But they went anyway...
And as they went....I can see this happening
"Hey George...Your face looks better, a lot better."
"Yeah!? So does yours!!!!" As everyones faces are starting to heal and their arms and legs and bodies!!
They all start to run to the Temple to show the priests...but George slows down, stops, turns around and runs back to Jesus.
Vs. 15 + 16 He through Himself at Jesus feet and with a loud voice praised Jesus and gave Him thanks!
Vs. 17-19 Jesus rightly asks why the other 9 have not returned to give Him thanks and Praise. Have you ever done anything for someone and not been thanked? It kind of hurts doesn't it? But God gave these men their lives back and only 1 came back to Thank Him!!!
What can we take out of this?
1. Do we take the TIME to be thankful?
The 9 didn't have time --- They needed to get to the priests to start their Ceremonial Cleansing!
They didn't make time for the ONE who had made it all possible!
***As soon as the 1 recognized God's hand, he gave thanks! We must learn to do this!***
Will you ask God to help you give thanks at all times, asking Him to show you His hand at work?
2. Do we allow CIRCUMSTANCES to determine/deter our thankfulness?
The 9 were to involved in the moment to give thanks!
Life is Good = To distracted to give thanks
Life is Bad = Not going to give thanks for this...are you kidding?
But we must give thanks in all things!!!
1 Thessalonians 5:18
"Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you."
***Offer up thanks in all circumstances! We must learn to do this!***
Will you ask God to help you give thanks in all circumstances?
3. Do we have a clear UNDERSTANDING of why to be thankful?
With a blessing there is Responsibility!!!
We say thanks for you benefit!!! Because in Thanking God we remember that He is the Creator and we are the created...That He is the Giver of all things and we only receive the gifts!
***Offering up thanks keeps us in the right perspective of Creator/Created, Giver/Receiver***
Will you ask God to help you keep this perspective throughout your daily life?
Thankfulness might be one of the Scarcest Virtues of all Humanity!
"If a person, at the same time that he receives remarkable kindness from God, has a sense of His infinite greatness, and that he is but nothing in comparison of Him, surely this will naturally raise his gratitude and praise the higher, for kindness to one so much inferior."
-Jonathan Edwards
BIG PICTURE
Do we live our lives as the 1? or the 9?
I must admit...most of the time....my life would look like the 9. And that needs to change.
Once again, Thank you Heath for this wonderful Message!
Lord Jesus, please help me to be more thankful. Help me to keep the correct perspective, that you are the Creator and I am the Created. Anything that you give me is a wonderful Gift and I do not deserve it at all! If I deserve anything it is death and separation from you. Thank you so much for the best gift of all...Salvation through your death on the cross and resurrection from the dead and that you have offered it freely to me! Lord, please change me. Make me more and more like yourself. In Jesus, Holy and Precious name, Amen.
In Christ,
David
Here is a great message for this time of year....Thanks Heath!
A little thanksgiving perspective....
A four-year-old boy said he was thankful for his glasses. "Why?
someone asked him. "Because it keeps the boys from hitting me - and the girls from kissing me."
TO BE "THINKFUL"
To be "Thinkful" is to be Thankful. If you think about things, you can thank God for them!
Luke 17:11-19
Jesus Cleanses Ten Lepers
"On the way to Jerusalem he was passing along between Samaria and Galilee. And as he entered a village, he was met by ten lepers, who stood at a distance and lifted up their voices, saying, 'Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.' When he saw them he said to them, 'Go and show yourselves to the priests.' And as they went they were cleansed. Then one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice; and he fell on his face at Jesus' feet, giving him thanks. Now he was a Samaritan. Then Jesus answered, 'Were not ten cleansed? Where are the nine? Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?' And he said to him, 'Rise and go your way; your faith has made you well.'"
Lepers: Basically lost their entire lives...to be a leper was to be unclean...was to be separated from your family and friends and loose all financial and social status...They lost everything!
Vs. 13 they cried out to Jesus, "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us."
We all know that they wanted to be healed...and what does Jesus do?
Vs. 14 "Go and show yourselves to the priests."
Now why would they want to do that...the priests were the ones who pronounced them unclean, why would they want to go back just to be pronounced unclean!
But they went anyway...
And as they went....I can see this happening
"Hey George...Your face looks better, a lot better."
"Yeah!? So does yours!!!!" As everyones faces are starting to heal and their arms and legs and bodies!!
They all start to run to the Temple to show the priests...but George slows down, stops, turns around and runs back to Jesus.
Vs. 15 + 16 He through Himself at Jesus feet and with a loud voice praised Jesus and gave Him thanks!
Vs. 17-19 Jesus rightly asks why the other 9 have not returned to give Him thanks and Praise. Have you ever done anything for someone and not been thanked? It kind of hurts doesn't it? But God gave these men their lives back and only 1 came back to Thank Him!!!
What can we take out of this?
1. Do we take the TIME to be thankful?
The 9 didn't have time --- They needed to get to the priests to start their Ceremonial Cleansing!
They didn't make time for the ONE who had made it all possible!
***As soon as the 1 recognized God's hand, he gave thanks! We must learn to do this!***
Will you ask God to help you give thanks at all times, asking Him to show you His hand at work?
2. Do we allow CIRCUMSTANCES to determine/deter our thankfulness?
The 9 were to involved in the moment to give thanks!
Life is Good = To distracted to give thanks
Life is Bad = Not going to give thanks for this...are you kidding?
But we must give thanks in all things!!!
1 Thessalonians 5:18
"Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you."
***Offer up thanks in all circumstances! We must learn to do this!***
Will you ask God to help you give thanks in all circumstances?
3. Do we have a clear UNDERSTANDING of why to be thankful?
With a blessing there is Responsibility!!!
We say thanks for you benefit!!! Because in Thanking God we remember that He is the Creator and we are the created...That He is the Giver of all things and we only receive the gifts!
***Offering up thanks keeps us in the right perspective of Creator/Created, Giver/Receiver***
Will you ask God to help you keep this perspective throughout your daily life?
Thankfulness might be one of the Scarcest Virtues of all Humanity!
"If a person, at the same time that he receives remarkable kindness from God, has a sense of His infinite greatness, and that he is but nothing in comparison of Him, surely this will naturally raise his gratitude and praise the higher, for kindness to one so much inferior."
-Jonathan Edwards
BIG PICTURE
Do we live our lives as the 1? or the 9?
I must admit...most of the time....my life would look like the 9. And that needs to change.
Once again, Thank you Heath for this wonderful Message!
Lord Jesus, please help me to be more thankful. Help me to keep the correct perspective, that you are the Creator and I am the Created. Anything that you give me is a wonderful Gift and I do not deserve it at all! If I deserve anything it is death and separation from you. Thank you so much for the best gift of all...Salvation through your death on the cross and resurrection from the dead and that you have offered it freely to me! Lord, please change me. Make me more and more like yourself. In Jesus, Holy and Precious name, Amen.
In Christ,
David
posted by Mark 1:17 at 3:33 PM
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For those of you going through Romans...I did the the study through Friday, today...I am not going to have time on those days to post.
See y'all monday!!!
In Christ,
David
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