11月19日
标 题：感恩
经 节：内中有一个见自己已经好了，就回来大声归荣耀与神，又俯伏在耶稣脚前感谢祂；这人是撒马利亚人。（路加福音十七章15一16节）
感恩是基督徒生活的基础。感恩是一种自觉的反应，是超越看到自己的蒙福，而看到那位赐福者。身为基督徒，我们已蒙赦免，由死亡中被救赎出来，成为神的儿女。再也没有比这一点更值得感恩的理由！
痳疯病患是当时被社会遗弃的一群人。他们感染的是高接触传染性疾病，以致必须与所爱的隔离。他们苦苦哀求耶稣怜悯他们，耶稣要他们去给祭司察看。他们顺服去做的时候，就得了医治！这十个长大痳疯的人，过去被禁止进入自己的村庄，不可进入自己的家，也不可从事自己原有的工作，甚至不准去触摸自己的儿女。想想看，当他们能够再次回到家里，那感受是多么激动喜悦！
这些痳疯病人中的一位跑回来向耶稣道谢，这位病人是撒马利亚人。犹太人通常是远远避开撒马利亚人，而耶稣居然医治了他！耶稣问：“其他的人去哪里了?”有十个痳疯病人同时得医治，他们为新得的健康欢乐，兴奋地分享这大好消息，但只有一位想到那祝福的源头，愿意稍稍停留，向赐予健康的那一位敬拜及感恩。
我们也一样，我们已经被救赎主医治，成为完全。我们自由地享受救赎主所恩赐的丰盛生活，但我们是否像那九个痳疯病人，兴冲冲地宣扬自己所得到的祝福，却未曾驻足感谢救赎主的恩典?神等着我们献上感恩。我们的敬拜、祷告、事奉和每日的生活，应该被我们对神的感恩所充满（腓立比书四：6）。
Thanksgiving
And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, returned, and with a loud voice glorified God, and fell down on his face at His feet, giving Him thanks. And he was a Samaritan. (Luke 17:15-16)
Thankfulness is foundational to the Christian life. Thankfulness is a conscious response that comes from looking beyond our blessings to their source. As Christians, we have been forgiven, saved from death, and adopted as God’s children. There could be no better reason for a grateful heart!
Lepers in Jesus’ day were social outcasts. Their highly contagious condition ostracized them from those they loved. When ten lepers encountered Jesus, they desperately implored Him to show them mercy. Jesus sent them to the priest. As they obeyed, they were healed! These ten men had been forbidden to enter their own villages, to live in their own homes, to work in their own jobs, or even to touch their own children. Imagine what unrestrained joy must have filled them as they ran back home again!
One of the lepers, a Samaritan, stopped and ran back to thank Jesus. Samaritans were normally shunned by the Jews, but Jesus had healed him! Jesus asked him, “Where are the others?” Ten lepers had been healed. Ten lepers were reveling in their newfound health. Ten men were joyfully rushing to share the good news with those they loved. But only one considered the Source of that blessing and stopped to thank and worship the One who had given him back his life.
We, too, have been healed and made whole by the Savior. We are free to enjoy the abundant life the Savior has graciously given us. Could we, like the nine lepers, rush off so quickly to glory in our blessings without stopping to thank our Redeemer? God looks for our thanks. Our worship, prayers, service, and daily life ought to be saturated with thanksgiving to God (Phil. 4:6).
