All ten of the lepers who have been healed by Jesus get to live their lives free from the social stigma, discrimination, and exclusion associated with having leprosy. And yet, only one of them gets to enter the company of Jesus. For nine of the lepers Jesus is a means to an end. For only one of them is Jesus an end in himself. And the key to the difference between that one leper and the other nine lies in two simple words: “thank you.” By saying “thank you,” that one leper was saying, “this is not mainly a story about me; this is mainly a story about God.” I’ve been healed not because I trained, nor I researched, nor I dieted, nor even because I prayed; I’ve been healed because God chose to reveal his power in me.
