Thank God Every Moment. Wednesday 32nd Week Ordinary Time

By Sanctus Mario Last updated Oct 9, 2022 1,022 9

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Breakfast with the Word Wednesday 32nd Week Ordinary Time

Thanking God should be a daily activity and part of our existence as Christians.

To thank God involves deep and heartful appreciation to God for all that happens in our lives as His children. We ought to be cheerfully doing this.

An Insight

A woman once told a story about how she was saved from an accident. While describing her experience, she said that her driver lost control while they were at a high speed.

The brake became stiff and the car refused to be controlled. At this point, there was nothing they could do if not to face any possible loss of life or damage.

According to her, she lost hope entirely. In the midst of this fearful experience, the only thing she could remember is “Lord save me”.

The driver was able to drive in between some vehicles until he saw a nearby bush and ran into it. He then used the hand brake, the car stopped and nothing happened to the woman, the driver and the car even.

Then when she came out of the car, she began to praise the driver. She said ‘if not this driver I wonder what would have happened.

When the driver was asked how he was able to drive expertly, he said: “ I did not even know what happened until I landed in the bush”. It became a laughing moment.

In this story, the woman called on God to save her and when God saved her, she forgot to thank God and was praising the driver, who was not even aware of how he dribbled His way out.

Like her, many today are totally blind to what God does for us daily. Many of us today have jobs, positions, influence, health, etc. Many have full-fledged bodies with none missing. Yet we take those things for granted.

If we do not have any reason to thank God, thank Him because you are alive. Thank God because you can see, walk, talk, think, eat, breathe and not in pain whatsoever.

Thank God that those related to you are still alive. Many people do not have what you have. That you have them is all by God’s grace. Thank your God.

In the Gospel.

In the gospel of today, we see Jesus travelling to Jerusalem and meeting ten lepers. They shout that Jesus heals them.

These lepers have been suffering psychologically, physically and emotionally. Because in the Jewish tradition, leprosy defiles a man, then renders him an outcast.

So, once the person is healed, he must go to a priest to certify that He is clean for acceptance back into the community.

In His love, Jesus heals them all. Then, Among them, only one came back to thank Him and Jesus began to ask about the whereabouts of others.

It is not that Jesus will receive special favour if we thank Him, but He uses this to underscore the importance of thanksgiving in our lives as children of God. It is part of what we ought to do; to give God thanks daily.

The Key Points

1.The bible says that the other nine are jews while only one is a samaritan. The presuming point here is that the person who we do not even expect to show up is the Samaritan.

The Samaritans have long-standing dissension with the Jews. So, we do not expect the Samaritan to show up but yet it is Him that approaches Jesus to thank Him.

This shows that sometimes the people who will truly appreciate you for what you do are those who are not related or close to you.

Sometimes the people who are close to us, see it as an entitlement when they receive favour from us.

Only because they are your friends, many people feel so entitled to whatever they gain from you. Hence,they will hardly appreciate a pint you do for them.