Luke 17:17 Meaning Jesus Answered

Ten are made whole and only one turns back to give thanks, and the turning back is the whole meaning. To be cleansed is to receive the change you asked for. To return is to know where the change came from, to face the awareness within that granted it. Nine take the gift and stay turned outward, crediting the world for what their own consciousness produced.

The one who comes back is the person who recognizes that his own imagination was the healer, that the state he assumed became the fact he now lives. Awareness of being is the power that answered, and gratitude is simply seeing that clearly. A person who takes the result and forgets the source learns nothing and stays a beggar. A person who turns and knows the source has found God as himself.

Nine out of ten people leave the moment the problem is solved, because the problem was the whole relationship.

What a person links to the end of their suffering holds them only as long as the suffering does. Nine had made Jesus the instrument of a cure, and an instrument gets set down once it has done its work. The tenth attached the pleasure to the giver rather than to the clean skin, and that meaning produced an emotion with somewhere to go.

Emotion sets action, and repeated action sets identity, which is why one healing became a relationship and nine became an errand completed. Anyone who moves toward God only to move away from pain will be a stranger to God in every season that goes well, which is most of a life.