"Jesus, Master, Have Pity On Us"

Luke 17:12

The healing of the ten lepers in Luke 17 is a familiar story to all of us.  We know Jesus healed the ten but only one came back, falling at His feet and praising God.

We are all unclean and needing of His precious cleansing.  We can all stand at a distance and cry out "unclean, unclean" before God.  Leprosy consumed their bodies as sin consumes us.  They were filled with despair and shame.  The difference in the lepers and us may be that they recognized and acknowledged that they were unclean.  When they came to Jesus and cried out to Him they were transformed.

We need transformation, too, that only comes through our coming to Jesus.  Only through Christ can we be made clean enough to come back into relationship with God, the Father.  Let's fall at the feet of Jesus and cry out "Jesus, Master, have pity on us."  We are sinful and in need of God's cleansing power.

Father, I come before you now, sinful and unclean, needing the cleansing power of my crucified and risen Lord and Savior, Jesus.  Have mercy on me, O God.  Create in me a clean heart and put a new and right spirit within me.  Praise and glory be Thine forever.  This is my  earnest prayer, in the name of your only begotten Son, Christ Jesus, Amen.

Tyne Willis