The narrative of the ten lepers in Luke 17 has an interesting little point, I think, in my strange manner of thinking. Since these men were "unclean" they were legally required to stand at a distance from other folk, hence it was necessary for them to communicate with Jesus by shouting. I think I'm pretty sure Jesus must have shouted back at them.
Sometimes I imagine that is how we must communicate with Christ. Our lives are so unclean through the myriad of offenses we seem to accumulate, we can only shout out from a distance, "God, be merciful to me a sinner."
What a better thing it would be to find ourselves really close to Him because our hearts and minds are squeaky clean.
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