No matter how little, the goodness of the LORD may appear to be in our sight. HE still deserves our praise, when we bear in mind that there really is nothing we could have done to make HIM show to us HIS goodness, but that of HIS magnanimity chooses to extend HIS goodness (waking us up into a new day, causing our body systems to function optimally without any assistance etc).
Every and any form that HIS goodness assumes should always activate a release of heart felt praise unto HIM from us and not create within us an entitlement mentality in us.
For to have an entitlement sense, will make praise not to be spontaneous from within us to GOD. Of the ten lepers who were healed by the LORD JESUS only one of them was made whole.
The other nine who were healed but not made whole as the LORD JESUS pointed out had an entitlement mentality, while the one who was made whole gave thanks for the goodness of the LORD extended to him bearing in mind the fact that as a stranger to the covenant of GOD with Israel, he was not entitled to the benefit extended to him. His realisation of the fact that he was fast tracked by mercy into it drew out praise, appreciation from him to the LORD that made him whole.
My dear friend and reader, let there be no reason too strong enough proceed from you at any point in time not to praise GOD for HIS goodness that you enjoy freely per time.
Let us resolve like the Psalmist did in PSALM 13:6 REF and it will amaze us (you and I) how much of HIS goodness that HE still has in store for us as the appreciation of that one leper who gave thanks to the MASTER produced for him ( his wholeness delivered to him by the LORD).
I believe that the posture adopted by the one leper who returned to appreciate the LORD'S doing in his life unveiled the reality that 'There is more to this ,where this one came from ' (The leprosy was stopped at its roots by the healing, but the outward effects were dealt with by the LORD making him whole).
It is a new day for us, brethren.
SHALOM ! 🙏🙏
- DAVID ALABI. ©️ 13/11/2024.
SCRIPTURE REF: PSALM 13:6 ; LUKE 17:11-19 ( NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION, NIV COPYRIGHT ©️ 1973,1978,1984,2011 by Biblica, Inc.
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