Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity, September 18th, 2022
When I go to the store to get one thing I usually end up leaving the store with all kinds of items. Everything, that is, except what I went to the store to get in the first place. Normally when I go to the store to get that one item I end up getting a whole bunch of items that I had not planned on getting. In fact, this just happened to me the other day. So by the time I got up to the cash register the woman there saw me with all the items I had grabbed and she stated that I should have gotten a cart. To which I replied: I would have but I only came in for one item. But this isn't the only example. Does anyone else have this problem: You go into the kitchen to get something or do something and by the time you get there, you get totally sidetracked by something else and you end up not even getting what you went to the kitchen to begin with. It could be that you get forgetful as you get older, but I think it's actually more the case that our minds are too occupied. We get sidetracked too easily. We forget to do things that we should do because we become fixated on doing other things.
In the Seventeenth Chapter of St. Luke's Gospel, we hear about the time in which there were ten lepers calling out for healing. They needed to be healed and desired Our Lord to heal them from being lepers. In fact St. Luke tells us that they must have made quite a scene because even though the lepers were some distance off they still caught Our Lord's attention and He came over and healed all ten of them. Out of the ten lepers which were healed, only one out of the ten came back to give thanks to Our Lord. Even Our Lord took notice of this because He stated: "Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine? There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger." (St. Luke 17:18) What happened to the other nine lepers? Did they simply forget to thank Our Lord? Were they too caught up in being cured that they did not have time to thank Him? How often are we like the nine ungrateful lepers? So often it seems we do our best to get out of a jam but when we get to the end of our rope and realize we can't do it, we run to God in prayer. We humble ourselves. We beg God for help. We acknowledge to God what we have done wrong and promise to do better. And then when God blesses us and takes care of our problem, we don't take time to thank God. It's almost as if we don't have time for God once our problem is taken care of. Why is this? We should thank God every day. We should thank God for the many blessings He bestows upon us. We should not be ungrateful children and only run to Him when we need something and then forget Him when everything is running smoothly. Thank God every day. Praise God for simply being wonderful. Intercede not only for your own needs but intercede on behalf of others. And ask God to forgive the times in which we were not perfect and made mistakes.
In the Seventeenth Chapter of St. Luke's Gospel, we hear about the time in which there were ten lepers calling out for healing. They needed to be healed and desired Our Lord to heal them from being lepers. In fact St. Luke tells us that they must have made quite a scene because even though the lepers were some distance off they still caught Our Lord's attention and He came over and healed all ten of them. Out of the ten lepers which were healed, only one out of the ten came back to give thanks to Our Lord. Even Our Lord took notice of this because He stated: "Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine? There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger." (St. Luke 17:18) What happened to the other nine lepers? Did they simply forget to thank Our Lord? Were they too caught up in being cured that they did not have time to thank Him? How often are we like the nine ungrateful lepers? So often it seems we do our best to get out of a jam but when we get to the end of our rope and realize we can't do it, we run to God in prayer. We humble ourselves. We beg God for help. We acknowledge to God what we have done wrong and promise to do better. And then when God blesses us and takes care of our problem, we don't take time to thank God. It's almost as if we don't have time for God once our problem is taken care of. Why is this? We should thank God every day. We should thank God for the many blessings He bestows upon us. We should not be ungrateful children and only run to Him when we need something and then forget Him when everything is running smoothly. Thank God every day. Praise God for simply being wonderful. Intercede not only for your own needs but intercede on behalf of others. And ask God to forgive the times in which we were not perfect and made mistakes.
St. Margaret Church worships every Sunday morning at 10:30 AM at the Chapel at Marquette Manor, which is located at 8140 N. Township Line Road on the Northwest side of Indianapolis.
NOTE: Keep in mind that we must enter in the main entrance of the lobby and sign in before we go to the chapel.
Please Join us as we gather together as God's family to: hear the Word of God; listen as God speaks to each one of us in our hearts; worship God in song and in word; listen to the King James Bible and the 1928 Book of Common Prayer; and, finally, receive Our Blessed Lord in Holy Communion so that we can be nourished for the journey we call life. Take one hour out of your busy schedule to worship God, to honour God, to acknowledge the need for God in your life.
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