Re: Verse reading – Psalm 103; Luke 17:11-19 (day seven)
“Rejoice always; pray without ceasing; in everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.”–1 Thessalonians 5:16-18. A week of reading Luke 17 has pressed an important question to the surface of my soul. Am I grateful? Am I one of the nine (the percentages are sobering) who receive from God and immediately rush back to life as I desire it to be? What of the Giver? Don’t I have some obligation to Him? The New Testament describes a new race of people who are ALIVE to the goodness of God. Even in suffering. Happy people. Unconquered. “So they went their way. . .rejoicing that they had been considered worthy to suffer shame in His name.”—Acts 5:41. “And the disciples were continually filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.”—Acts 13:52. Am I one of these people? I WANT TO BE! Lord helping, I will be. Starting today. It is His will for me.
