November 25, 2025 - Good Morning! It’s Tuesday, November 25.
We continue our Thanksgiving series, with the story of another Bible character who was thankful.
Leprosy is considered by historians to be the first recorded disease. Scientific proof dates back to at least 2000 BC, and Hippocrates wrote about leprosy five centuries before Bethlehem. It was incurable, and those who contracted it were quarantined - not for 14 days, like during the Covid pandemic - but for the rest of their lives.
The Bible mentions leprosy 68 times, and in the Book of Leviticus we find rules for those who suffered from it. One of those rules was that the infected had to remain at least six feet from other people - another reminder of our bizarre shared experience in 2020.
On the road to Jerusalem, Jesus encountered a group of ten lepers and healed them. He commanded them to go to a priest to be examined, another rule from Leviticus. It is important to note that they were not cured - until they turned to go. They made that decision not by sight, but by faith. But faith is not our focus this morning, we’re here to talk about thankfulness. And out of the ten lepers that were made clean, only one turned back to say thank you.
That one, a Samaritan by the way, ran back to the Lord shouting his praise! And then scripture tells us he prostrated himself. That means he lay, spread eagled, face down, in the middle of a dusty road. The other nine focused on finding the priest, being declared clean, returning to families and friends. The one leper, instead, directed his focus to Christ - the “giver of all good gifts” - and was thankful.
Meet you back here tomorrow,
David
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