Back to Say Thanks

In our Sunday School kindergarten class today the lesson was about the ten men with leprosy that was healed. Strangely enough for some reason the number of students who showed up for class was ten exactly. With the boys rough-housing each other on the right and the girls anxious to get back to their dolls and kitchen we talked about being thankful.

Difficult as it was to get my point across to the kids it truly did make me think of the ten men with leprosy. Probably so busy being pre-occupied with the world they forgot to stop and thank Jesus for healing them. They had better things to do. Jesus must know they were grateful why go back and waste that time.

The time that gets wasted is the time we fail to show and say our thanks to Jesus. We don't have to be healed of an illness to have something to be thankful for. We can thank Him for the sunshine, our parents, food on the table, a house to live in, the air we breathe and so much more. Things like being thankful for God's love, his grace and mercy and His blessings. We all need to be that tenth person who went back to thanks. It doesn't count if one in the crowd went back to say it for us.