Christian Reflections

If you’ve been blog hopping lately, you will notice that most bloggers posted anything Top Ten this week. It’s getting old actually. Most of us don’t know what to believe anymore, what with everyone telling us the ten best blah blah, ten worst blah blah, year in review, what to expect in 2010, everything along those lines. Then here I am, adding more noise to the confusion, trying to make up my own list, among thousands, probably millions of lists. Do I really have to write a post for this?

As I looked at my Google Analytics and Webmaster Tools today, I noticed that people are searching for Christian Reflections for New Year. These searchers landed on my site, obviously because my domain name is Christian Reflections. Amidst the noise of the holiday season, I am glad that people are still looking for Christ, for His words, for Biblical principles, for something that would feed their souls. If that’s you, read on. I got something to share with you.

This is something related to my previous post on the healing of ten lepers outside the city of Jerusalem as recounted in Luke 17: 11-19. What I didn’t mention in that post were my reflections why out of ten people who got healed, only one came back to thank Jesus. We know the story very well, but bear with me on this. Why indeed?

My pastor told us why last Sunday. Because nine of them felt they deserved the healing. They were Jewish, for crying out loud. They are sons of the promise. Maybe the Samaritan guy should really go back to thank Jesus, he was born an infidel anyway. Historically, culturally, spiritually, genetically, socially, he was a secondary citizen. Not them. It was Jesus’ obligation to heal them.

So they didn’t bother to thank Jesus.