My reading from today’s Discipleship Journal Reading Plan placed me in Luke 17:11-19. It’s the story of the ten lepers who cry out to Jesus for mercy. He sends them to the priest for inspection. While on the way they are cured.
Nine proceed to the priest while the remaining one turns and worships at Jesus’ feet because of the miracle.
I looked up a commentary passage on the section and found Matthew Henry making an interesting point in his Complete commentary:
As they went, they were cleansed, and so became fit to be looked upon by the priest, and to have a certificate from him that they were clean. Observe, Then we may expect God to meet us with mercy when we are found in the way of duty. If we do what we can, God will not be wanting to do that for us which we cannot. Go, attend upon instituted ordinances; go and pray, and read the scriptures: Go show thyself to the priests; go and open thy case to a faithful minister, and, though the means will not heal thee of themselves, God will heal thee in the diligent use of those means.
Matthew Henry reminds us that while God could just snap his fingers and make things happen for us (and sometimes he does), but instead often times he uses our means to provide.
Personally something I ought to remember more actively.
