Jesus teaches in the passage of the one leper who returned to GIVE THANKS TO HIM… and in doing so GLORIFIED GOD!

“When He saw them, He said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” And as they were going, they were cleansed. Now one of them, when he saw that he had been healed, turned back, GLORIFYING GOD God with a loud voice, and he fell on his face at His feet, GIVING THANKS to Him. And he was a Samaritan. Then Jesus answered and said, “Were there not ten cleansed? But the nine—where are they? Was no one found who returned to GIVE GLORY to God, ” -{LUKE 17 :14-19}.

We often can make “Glorifying God” so difficult  to do, or mystical to “know,” when God in this passage shows us one practical, proper, God honoring way He can receive Glory, honor from us, namely the giving Him thanks SPECIFICALLY to Him attributing SPECIFICALLY To His character and SPECIFIC Work.

Acknowledging Him as the Source is what this healed man did when he took time to return to Jesus and say “Thank You!” Jesus asked where were the other nine whom he had healed? Was there no gratitude to Him for what he had done for them?

It is easy to get on our “high horses” and  say how terrible they were, but how about us? How often do we fail to give Him thanks for who He is and what He has done for us? One evidence of spiritual maturity according To Colossians 1:9, 12-13- is growing in thanks to the Father for our salvation. Yet, when is the last time we have thanked Him for saving us, redeeming, transferring us from the kingdom of darkness to the Kingdom Of His Beloved Son and for total forgiveness?

God is to be the OBJECT of our Giving thanks and in doing so He is GLORIFIED! How wonderful when you give thanks from the heart to God irrespective of how you “feel,” YOU HAVE… GLORIFIED GOD! That alone should encourage us to develop a perspective where we are LOOKING for Reasons to GIVE THANKS TO GOD… because in doing so… GOD IS GLORIFIED!

Cultivate an ATTITUDE of GRATITUDE!

  • THINK OF THREE REASONS TO THANK GOD.
  • REALIZE THAT IN GIVING GOD THANKS …YOU HAVE GLORIFIED GOD…. THREE TIMES…IN DOING SO!!!

 

  • If you Thanked Him ten times  you have GLORIFIED Him ten times! When you read His Word, look for what does it reveal about Him and give Him thanks. The same with His promises, the same with reasons to Thank Him for other peoples lives. We can develop an attitude of gratitude as we ask Him to help us and as we look to His Word to give us fuel for our appreciation to Him

You can GLORIFY God NOW….right Now!

Ok, then…. List your three specific reasons to Glorify God by giving Him thanks!

 BE  like the one leper and choose to say “Thank You” and in doing so- YOU ARE GIVING HIM GLORY!