If you know anything about leprosy, you know it's nothing to play with. Leprosy is an infectious skin disease that causes your flesh to decay & scar, and is contagious. Lepers were outcasts so they had to form their own communities because they couldn't be in contact with others. If someone felt a leper got too close to them, the leper would have a foreign object thrown at them to keep them at bay. In Luke 17:11-19, Jesus heals 10 lepers & only ONE gave Jesus thanks. Crazy, huh? So out of 10 lepers that Jesus healed, only one had the decency to give God thanks. The lesson in that is most of them (lepers) were ungrateful because Jesus didn't have to heal them, but he did. I don't know about you, but if God delivered me from leprosy, I would be eternally grateful. I would give God thanks every chance I get because my life would be changed. I could be among regular people without hesitation. How many of us are ungrateful when God or someone else blesses us? We should be thankful because God doesn't have to bless us, but he blesses us out of the goodness of his heart. If God was like any of us, I'm sure he would have taken his miracle back and let the lepers continue suffering. The lesson in Luke 17:11-1 is not everyone will be grateful when God blesses them. Sad, but true.
