Saying thank you

“One of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud voice. He threw himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked Him – and he was a Samaritan. Jesus asked, ‘Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine?’” Luke 17:15-17
The account of the healing of the ten lepers is only given in Luke’s gospel. Jesus healed many lepers, and there was provision in the Law spelling out how they were to be cleansed by the priest, but in the entire Old Testament this lay dormant (the only leper healed in the Old Testament was Naaman, who was a Gentile; see 2 Kin. 5 and Luke 4:27). Leprosy is a symbol of sin: it numbs the nerves to its condition and eventually takes over the whole body. So it is most fitting that only Jesus was able to cleanse it.
You’d think that if you had been healed from an incurable disease, you would say thank you. Yet only one of the ten lepers bothered to do so, and he was not a full Jew but a Samaritan.
God expects to get the credit when He does something miraculous, but He doesn’t demand it. He appreciates it when we say ‘thank You’ and acknowledge His hand working in the situation. Let us not be people who neglect to thank God for what He does and what He has done in our lives.