1 00:00:02,730 --> 00:00:12,970 Speaker 1: Life Audio Thank you for listening to Your Nightly Scripture, 2 00:00:13,470 --> 00:00:18,790 Speaker 1: a calming, Scripture-centered devotional podcast designed to help you end 3 00:00:19,030 --> 00:00:22,669 Speaker 1: each day with God's Word in your mind and on 4 00:00:22,710 --> 00:00:26,790 Speaker 1: your heart. Right after this short word from our sponsors, 5 00:00:27,380 --> 00:00:43,419 Speaker 1: we'll reflect on tonight's scripture. Luke... Tonight's scripture reflection is 6 00:00:43,479 --> 00:00:47,849 Speaker 1: written by Amber Ginter and read by Leah Gerard. Luke 7 00:00:48,350 --> 00:00:56,510 Speaker 1: chapter 17. Jesus said to his disciples, things that cause 8 00:00:56,550 --> 00:01:00,880 Speaker 1: people to stumble are bound to come, but woe to 9 00:01:01,100 --> 00:01:04,539 Speaker 1: anyone through whom they come. It would be better for 10 00:01:04,580 --> 00:01:08,259 Speaker 1: them to be thrown into the sea with a millstone 11 00:01:08,340 --> 00:01:11,280 Speaker 1: tied around their neck than to cause one of these 12 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:17,160 Speaker 1: little ones to stumble. So watch yourselves. If your brother 13 00:01:17,340 --> 00:01:22,810 Speaker 1: or sister sins against you, rebuke them. And if they repent, 14 00:01:23,690 --> 00:01:28,130 Speaker 1: forgive them. If they sin against you seven times in 15 00:01:28,170 --> 00:01:31,670 Speaker 1: a day and seven times come back to you, saying, 16 00:01:32,470 --> 00:01:38,030 Speaker 1: I repent, you must forgive them. The apostles said to 17 00:01:38,090 --> 00:01:43,520 Speaker 1: the Lord, Increase our faith. He replied, If you have 18 00:01:43,580 --> 00:01:46,380 Speaker 1: faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say 19 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:50,200 Speaker 1: to this mulberry tree, Be uprooted and planted in the sea, 20 00:01:50,340 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 1: and it will obey you. Suppose one of you has 21 00:01:54,190 --> 00:01:58,110 Speaker 1: a servant plowing or looking after the sheep, Will he 22 00:01:58,210 --> 00:02:00,510 Speaker 1: say to the servant when he comes in from the field, 23 00:02:01,270 --> 00:02:03,850 Speaker 1: Come along now and sit down to eat. Won't he 24 00:02:03,910 --> 00:02:08,419 Speaker 1: rather say, Prepare my supper, get yourself ready, and wait 25 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:11,179 Speaker 1: on me while I eat and drink. After that, you 26 00:02:11,220 --> 00:02:15,820 Speaker 1: may eat and drink. Will he thank the servant because 27 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:19,430 Speaker 1: he did what he was told to do? So you also, 28 00:02:19,830 --> 00:02:22,169 Speaker 1: when you have done everything you were told to do, 29 00:02:22,490 --> 00:02:26,650 Speaker 1: should say, We are unworthy servants. We've only done our duty. 30 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:31,200 Speaker 1: Now on his way to Jerusalem, Jesus traveled along the 31 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:35,630 Speaker 1: border between Samaria and Galilee. As he was going into 32 00:02:35,690 --> 00:02:39,089 Speaker 1: a village, ten men who had leprosy met him. They 33 00:02:39,150 --> 00:02:43,210 Speaker 1: stood at a distance and called out in a loud voice, Jesus, Master, 34 00:02:43,690 --> 00:02:47,190 Speaker 1: have pity on us. When he saw them, he said, 35 00:02:47,230 --> 00:02:50,620 Speaker 1: go show yourselves to the priests. And as they went, 36 00:02:51,419 --> 00:02:55,460 Speaker 1: they were cleansed. One of them, when he saw he 37 00:02:55,500 --> 00:02:59,680 Speaker 1: was healed, came back. Praising God in a loud voice, 38 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:04,330 Speaker 1: he threw himself at Jesus' feet and thanked him. And 39 00:03:04,370 --> 00:03:10,710 Speaker 1: he was a Samaritan. Jesus asked, Were not all ten cleansed? 40 00:03:11,610 --> 00:03:15,200 Speaker 1: Where are the other nine? Has no one returned to 41 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:18,619 Speaker 1: give praise to God except this foreigner? Then he said 42 00:03:18,660 --> 00:03:25,190 Speaker 1: to him, Rise and go. Your faith has made you well. Once, 43 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:28,380 Speaker 1: On being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of 44 00:03:28,419 --> 00:03:32,060 Speaker 1: God would come, Jesus replied, The coming of the kingdom 45 00:03:32,100 --> 00:03:35,619 Speaker 1: of God is not something that can be observed, nor 46 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:39,550 Speaker 1: will people say, Here it is, or there it is, 47 00:03:39,650 --> 00:03:45,610 Speaker 1: because the kingdom of God is in your midst. Then 48 00:03:45,650 --> 00:03:48,830 Speaker 1: he said to his disciples, The time is coming when 49 00:03:48,850 --> 00:03:51,420 Speaker 1: you will long to see one of the days of 50 00:03:51,460 --> 00:03:53,590 Speaker 1: the Son of Man, but you will not see it. 51 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:57,140 Speaker 1: People will tell you, There he is, or here he is. 52 00:03:57,820 --> 00:04:00,960 Speaker 1: Do not go running off after them. For the Son 53 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:04,540 Speaker 1: of Man in his day will be like lightning, which 54 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:07,720 Speaker 1: flashes and lights up the sky from one end to 55 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:12,650 Speaker 1: the other. But first, he must suffer many things and 56 00:04:12,690 --> 00:04:17,190 Speaker 1: be rejected by this generation. Just as it was in 57 00:04:17,210 --> 00:04:19,990 Speaker 1: the days of Noah, so also will it be in 58 00:04:20,010 --> 00:04:23,570 Speaker 1: the days of the Son of Man. People were eating, drinking, drinking, 59 00:04:24,170 --> 00:04:27,710 Speaker 1: marrying and being given in marriage, up to the day 60 00:04:27,830 --> 00:04:31,540 Speaker 1: Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed 61 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:35,080 Speaker 1: them all. It was the same in the days of Lot. 62 00:04:35,580 --> 00:04:40,760 Speaker 1: People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. 63 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:46,200 Speaker 1: But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained 64 00:04:46,300 --> 00:04:50,960 Speaker 1: down from heaven and destroyed them all. It will be 65 00:04:51,020 --> 00:04:53,570 Speaker 1: just like this on the day the Son of Man 66 00:04:53,650 --> 00:04:57,529 Speaker 1: is revealed. On that day, no one who is on 67 00:04:57,570 --> 00:05:03,560 Speaker 1: the housetop with possessions inside should go down to get them. Likewise, 68 00:05:04,279 --> 00:05:07,020 Speaker 1: no one in the field should go back for anything. 69 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:12,580 Speaker 1: Remember Lot's wife. Whoever tries to keep their life will 70 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:16,940 Speaker 1: lose it, and whoever loses their life will preserve it. 71 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:21,419 Speaker 1: I tell you, on that night, two people will be 72 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:25,130 Speaker 1: in one bed One will be taken and the other left. 73 00:05:25,790 --> 00:05:29,430 Speaker 1: Two women will be grinding grain together. One will be 74 00:05:29,490 --> 00:05:34,670 Speaker 1: taken and the other left. Where, Lord? they asked. He replied, 75 00:05:35,190 --> 00:05:39,450 Speaker 1: Where there is a dead body, there the vultures will gather. 76 00:05:43,770 --> 00:05:47,150 Speaker 1: Isn't it funny how quickly we notice everything that went 77 00:05:47,190 --> 00:05:50,380 Speaker 1: wrong with the day instead of what went right? Let 78 00:05:50,420 --> 00:05:53,869 Speaker 1: me give you a recent example. It was a Monday morning, 79 00:05:54,529 --> 00:05:58,130 Speaker 1: and my plans got shifted dramatically. As soon as I 80 00:05:58,170 --> 00:06:03,070 Speaker 1: woke up, I could tell I was stressed, irritable, and 81 00:06:03,110 --> 00:06:07,099 Speaker 1: going to have a rough day. But that morning, before 82 00:06:07,140 --> 00:06:12,440 Speaker 1: the day really had a chance to begin, I prayed, Lord, 83 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:15,320 Speaker 1: this day is in your hands. Please be with me 84 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:20,390 Speaker 1: and help me not to be irritable. It wasn't easy, 85 00:06:21,089 --> 00:06:27,040 Speaker 1: but that shift changed the day in the past i 86 00:06:27,060 --> 00:06:29,839 Speaker 1: would have said the whole day was bad simply because 87 00:06:30,339 --> 00:06:33,279 Speaker 1: it didn't go the way i originally intended or planned 88 00:06:34,220 --> 00:06:37,520 Speaker 1: the reality is sometimes we don't need our plans to 89 00:06:37,610 --> 00:06:41,350 Speaker 1: change but we need to change our perspective within them 90 00:06:42,910 --> 00:06:46,330 Speaker 1: i'm not saying we need to just be thankful or 91 00:06:46,930 --> 00:06:49,850 Speaker 1: ignore the hardships of our day it's important to be 92 00:06:49,990 --> 00:06:54,419 Speaker 1: honest with god about what we're experiencing But it's also 93 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:57,820 Speaker 1: important that we focus on what we know to be true. 94 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:05,109 Speaker 1: In Luke 17, ten lepers need Jesus' miraculous healing. All 95 00:07:05,190 --> 00:07:10,190 Speaker 1: ten are healed, but only one, and a Samaritan at that, 96 00:07:10,690 --> 00:07:14,410 Speaker 1: comes back to thank him. When I read that story, 97 00:07:14,490 --> 00:07:18,210 Speaker 1: I often think, where did the other nine go? What 98 00:07:18,250 --> 00:07:21,890 Speaker 1: were they so preoccupied with that they couldn't at least heal? 99 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:26,600 Speaker 1: Thank Jesus for healing them. And then it hit me. 100 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:31,290 Speaker 1: I'm often tempted to do the same, especially when my 101 00:07:31,370 --> 00:07:37,650 Speaker 1: days get reoriented to perhaps his or another's plan or agenda. 102 00:07:39,370 --> 00:07:41,710 Speaker 1: I don't know how your day is going so far. 103 00:07:42,190 --> 00:07:44,140 Speaker 1: I don't know if your Monday this week was the 104 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:48,020 Speaker 1: best or the worst one yet. Is your day going 105 00:07:48,100 --> 00:07:52,440 Speaker 1: according to plan or has everything gotten erased off the calendar? 106 00:07:54,190 --> 00:07:58,990 Speaker 1: But I do know this. One leper stopped and chose 107 00:07:59,030 --> 00:08:02,850 Speaker 1: to remember what Jesus had done. No matter how busy 108 00:08:02,910 --> 00:08:07,920 Speaker 1: his schedule was, he returned to give thanks because he 109 00:08:08,070 --> 00:08:13,760 Speaker 1: made it a priority. Jesus knew his full story, the good, 110 00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:17,700 Speaker 1: the bad, and the ugly. When you think about your life, 111 00:08:18,580 --> 00:08:21,940 Speaker 1: what are you most likely to notice at the end 112 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:27,490 Speaker 1: of a hard day? What went wrong or what went right? 113 00:08:29,290 --> 00:08:33,310 Speaker 1: Are you like the lepers who were too preoccupied by 114 00:08:33,350 --> 00:08:35,530 Speaker 1: the rest of their day that they forgot to make 115 00:08:35,870 --> 00:08:39,929 Speaker 1: room for Jesus within it? Or are you the one 116 00:08:40,470 --> 00:08:44,189 Speaker 1: who returned? The one who said, Here I am, Lord. 117 00:08:44,710 --> 00:08:49,190 Speaker 1: Here are my hurts. Won't you heal me? And he does. 118 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:55,120 Speaker 1: Jesus heals you. those who thank him and those who don't. 119 00:08:55,870 --> 00:08:59,290 Speaker 1: But shouldn't we be willing to praise and thank the 120 00:08:59,370 --> 00:09:03,290 Speaker 1: one who gave his all for us, even when it 121 00:09:03,330 --> 00:09:11,130 Speaker 1: wasn't timely, fun, or according to his plan? Absolutely. Today, 122 00:09:11,790 --> 00:09:14,960 Speaker 1: might I encourage you to talk honestly to God about 123 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:19,120 Speaker 1: the state of your heart, bring your complaints, but thank 124 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:24,200 Speaker 1: him too. Then answer these questions, Three questions. What is 125 00:09:24,420 --> 00:09:27,959 Speaker 1: one thing God has done for me that I forgot 126 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:32,090 Speaker 1: to thank Him for? Do I thank God when He 127 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:35,650 Speaker 1: gives me something and reflect on the moment or just 128 00:09:35,750 --> 00:09:41,510 Speaker 1: jump to the next need? Which leper are you? As 129 00:09:41,550 --> 00:09:46,220 Speaker 1: you prepare for rest, ask yourself, where did I see 130 00:09:46,300 --> 00:09:50,360 Speaker 1: God's goodness, even if today wasn't a walk in the park? 131 00:09:51,510 --> 00:09:56,760 Speaker 1: And how can that shift my perspective of the day? 132 00:10:01,280 --> 00:10:04,920 Speaker 1: Dear Jesus, thank you for loving me enough to heal me. 133 00:10:05,700 --> 00:10:09,040 Speaker 1: Please forgive me when I'm more focused on what's missing 134 00:10:09,730 --> 00:10:14,209 Speaker 1: than what you've already given me. Help me notice your 135 00:10:14,309 --> 00:10:18,240 Speaker 1: goodness even when life is hard. and teach me to 136 00:10:18,340 --> 00:10:23,179 Speaker 1: bring my complaints to you without allowing them to consume me. 137 00:10:24,300 --> 00:10:29,660 Speaker 1: I love, praise, and thank you, Lord. Change me from 138 00:10:29,679 --> 00:10:38,270 Speaker 1: the inside out. Amen. 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