November 26: Insight Post by Rusty Coram

  -   November 26, 2025

God’s Grace Is for All: The lepers were outcasts, both socially and religiously, yet Jesus reached out to heal them without discrimination. This reminds us that God’s grace is extended to all people, regardless of their background or social status.

Wednesday Verse

There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male and female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus. Galatians 3:28 (NLT)

Wednesday Questions

How can I better embrace and extend grace to those who are often marginalized in society? In what ways can I actively seek to love and support individuals from diverse backgrounds, recognizing that God’s grace is inclusive and calls us to unity in Christ?

Wednesday Insight Post
by Rusty Coram

With Thanksgiving this week, this is a great episode in Jesus’ life to explore. The ten men struggling with leprosy were desperate. Isolated from their family, friends, and community, their fate was bleak. Seeing Jesus and having heard about His power to heal, they all began to cry out for help. As they made their way to the local priest, each discovered that their leprosy was gone. Amazing! With the priest’s approval, they could go back to their previous lives and relationships. I’m sure they had in mind the first thing they wanted to do as soon as possible. But one of them, a non-Jew, put his plans on hold and went back to express a deep, heartfelt “thank you” to the one who healed him. Probably most of us can identify with the nine who didn’t. They were eager to be reunited with their family and friends, get a good meal, and sleep in their own home… we can understand. But this Samaritan shows us a character trait that is essential in the second kind of healing, and the most important one that Jesus offers. Let’s read,

Jesus asked, “Didn’t I heal ten men? Where are the other nine? ¹⁸ Has no one returned to give glory to God except this foreigner?” ¹⁹ And Jesus said to the man, “Stand up and go. Your faith has healed you.”  Luke 17:17-19 (NLT)

What this Samaritan demonstrates is humility-fueled gratitude. Putting his own dreams and desires in second place, he went to say thank you to the one who had given him his life back. And here is where we learn something very important: all ten were physically healed, but the one who went back is the one who got healed the second time – not physically but spiritually – made right with God!

Rusty Coram
Senior Pastor

New Hope Church
Lorton, Virginia
www.newhope.org