{"id":288,"date":"2023-11-01T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reflectivebiblestudy.com\/gospeladventure\/?p=288&2023"},"modified":"2023-10-30T18:00:07","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T00:00:07","slug":"missing-your-chance-luke-17-11-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reflectivebiblestudy.com\/gospeladventure\/missing-your-chance-luke-17-11-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Your Chance: Luke 17:11-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"spoiler spoiler-style-2\"><div class=\"spoiler-title\">Focus Passage: Luke 17:11-19 (NASB)<\/div><div class=\"spoiler-content\" style=\"display: none;\"><p><sup>11<\/sup>\u00a0While He was on the way to Jerusalem, He was passing between Samaria and Galilee. <sup>12<\/sup>\u00a0As He entered a village, ten leprous men who stood at a distance met Him; <sup>13<\/sup>\u00a0and they raised their voices, saying, &#8220;Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!&#8221; <sup>14<\/sup>\u00a0When He saw them, He said to them, <span class=\"red-letter\">&#8220;Go and show yourselves to the priests.&#8221;<\/span> And as they were going, they were cleansed. <sup>15<\/sup>\u00a0Now one of them, when he saw that he had been healed, turned back, glorifying God with a loud voice, <sup>16<\/sup>\u00a0and he fell on his face at His feet, giving thanks to Him. And he was a Samaritan. <sup>17<\/sup>\u00a0Then Jesus answered and said, <span class=\"red-letter\">&#8220;Were there not ten cleansed? But the nine&mdash;where are they?<\/span> <sup>18<\/sup>\u00a0<span class=\"red-letter\">Was no one found who returned to give glory to God, except this foreigner?&#8221;<\/span> <sup>19<\/sup>\u00a0And He said to him, <span class=\"red-letter\">&#8220;Stand up and go; your faith <span class=\"tooltiptrigger\">*<\/span><span class=\"tooltip\">Lit <em>has saved you<\/em><\/span>has made you well.&#8221;<\/span> <\/p><p class=\"passage-read-more\">Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=luke 17:11-19&amp;version=NASB\" title=\"Read the passage on BibleGateway.com\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"hyperlink-underlined\">Luke 17:11-19<\/a> in context and\/or in other translations on BibleGateway.com!<\/p><\/div><\/div>\r\n<p>Have you ever intended to do something, but then either never got around to it, or missed your chance entirely? Perhaps you received a coupon or flier announcing a sale, but then misplaced it, only to find it later after the opportunity was gone.<\/p>\r\n<p>It is this type of question that I think about when looking at this passage. All too often we look at the story of these ten lepers and assume that only the one who came back to thank Jesus was truly thankful. I wonder if the other nine were thankful as well, but when they came back to give thanks, this event was not recorded.<\/p>\r\n<p>Or perhaps they intended to come back, but then missed their opportunity, because just two chapters later, in Luke 19, we find Jesus entering Jerusalem on a donkey and beginning the week of His crucifixion.<\/p>\r\n<p>It is hard for me to imagine the other nine who were healed not being thankful, but perhaps giving personal thanks to Jesus simply slipped away. They probably reached the priest, who either pronounced them as clean, or perhaps, if asking them what happened, might have been irritated to learn it was Jesus and sent them away for another seven days or until a new priest was responsible. As is clear in all four gospels, the priests, Pharisees, and religious leaders as a group were not very fond of Jesus.<\/p>\r\n<p>If the priest did pronounce them as clean, then they could have been so excited to see their families again that they made that their next destination, fully intending to find Jesus later, but not realizing that time was short \u2013 that Jesus had been making His way towards Jerusalem, and specifically towards the cross.<\/p>\r\n<p>This event, mixed with my imagination surrounding what happened to these other nine men who were healed, leads me to the big point for this entry: <strong>Don\u2019t miss your chance to develop a relationship with Jesus. <em>Intentions are only as good as the actions that follow.<\/em> There will be a time when it will be too late to choose Jesus. While you are breathing, you still can make that choice.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<div id=\"aj-wrap-up--288\" class=\"aj-wrap-up\"><p><em>This thought was inspired by studying the <strong>Walking With Jesus<\/strong> \u201cReflective Bible Study\u201d package. To discover insights like this in your own study time, <a class=\"underline\" href=\"https:\/\/reflectivebiblestudy.com\/\" title=\"Check out Reflective Bible Study!\">click here<\/a> and give Reflective Bible Study a try today!<\/em><\/p><p><em><a class=\"underline\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\" onClick=\"rbs_aj_inline_subscribe(this, '288');\">Subscribe<\/a> to this blog and never miss an insight.<\/em><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Have you ever intended to do something, but then either never got around to it, or missed your chance entirely? Perhaps you received a coupon or flier announcing a sale, but then misplaced it, only to find it later after the opportunity was gone. 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