Family Devotional / Day 2 Gratitude

Read Luke 17:11-19

Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem. He traveled along the border between Samaria and Galilee. As he was going into a village, ten men met him. They had a skin disease. They were standing close by. And they called out in a loud voice, “Jesus! Master! Have pity on us!”

Jesus saw them and said, “Go. Show yourselves to the priests.” While they were on the way, they were healed.

When one of them saw that he was healed, he came back. He praised God in a loud voice. He threw himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked him. The man was a Samaritan.

Jesus asked, “Weren’t all ten healed? Where are the other nine? Didn’t anyone else return and give praise to God except this outsider?” Then Jesus said to him, “Get up and go. Your faith has healed you.”

In today’s true story, Jesus does something amazing! He heals ten people from a really bad disease called leprosy. This disease was so bad that these men would not have been allowed to be near their families or friends. Jesus completely CHANGED their lives that day! How awesome!!

Talk about it: How did Jesus change their lives? How did they respond? Think of a time that someone did something REALLY nice for you. How did that make you feel?

Last time, we talked about gratitude. Can you remember what gratitude means? A feeling of thankfulness that leads you to act. The one man in the story that was healed was so thankful, he went back and worshipped Jesus. He worshipped by saying thank you and praising God!

Define it: The man worshipped God. What does it mean to worship? Praising God for who He is and what He has done! Let’s make some lists together to better understand all the types of worship.

Work together to come up with ways to worship...here are some examples, singing, dancing, reading the Bible, praying, memorizing Scripture, fasting, giving, communion. Perhaps, practice a few of these forms of worship together now or this week!

Gratitude is a form of worship, because it causes us to thank God for what He has done!

We have a special paper that we can hang up in the house (maybe on the fridge). We are going to start making a list this month of things for which we can say thank you to God! Ways in which we are grateful to God!

Pull out the page and go around your family and each add at least one thing today. Then at meal times or bedtime throughout the devotional series, be sure to add items to the list!

Each time, say “Thank you God for your good gifts!”