18th Sunday after Pentecost

Faith leads us back to Jesus

The story of the ten lepers often gets reduced merely to a story about thankfulness.

And it is. But more, it’s a story about faith.

Don’t get too down on the first nine lepers. When Jesus told them to go and show

themselves to the priest, they were doing exactly what the book of Leviticus said to do.

Only the priests could verify that they had been healed of their leprosy. But it wasn’t the

word of the priest that made the difference; it was the word of Jesus. All the priests could

do was to certify that Christ had healed them with a word. But faith pointed the tenth

leper back to the true source of his salvation.

Faith led him back to Jesus.