And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God, (Luke 17:15 KJV)
It is cogent that we understand how best to turn at a Turning Point. God’s intervention in Man’s situation often brings about a Turning Point, a turn or change in related circumstance that relieves stress and distress for fortune and freedom. This is the imminent effect of God’s involvement in Man’s affairs for He came to set the captives free. About God’s desire and design to help, save and restore Man, the Bible says, “The Lord will lay bare his holy arm in the sight of all the nations and all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God”. (Isaiah 52:10 NIV)
The notice and understanding of God’s willingness and readiness to help, save and restore must motivate us to always look to Him to turn things around for our good and also share with others the good news of God’s available grace and salvation. It is important that we know where to find the help we need and also direct others to where to so find help as we were help.
Having been helped by God, we must not be unsavory in our aptitude to turn appropriately at the Turning Point incepted by God for our fortune. It is often a drastic and unpleasant occasion to see how often many fail and trip off the crest of good and great turning point being without diligence to appropriate the goodness of God carefully. A distasteful habit of “fools” is to consider God no longer necessary after God’s intervention with a Turning Point. We must both note and understand: there is nothing God will do for man that will make God no longer necessary in a Man’s life or fortune. It is a foolish and despicable inference to so constitute one’s conduct in relation to God.
This point was well illustrated by our Lord Jesus Christ in the account of a certain rich man, whose ground yielded an abundant harvest. (Luke 12:17 KJV) This man had the fortune of a turning point. God intervened and brought him to a major Turning Point. In his testimony of the fortune brought about by God, he said, “I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of grain laid” up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.” (Luke 12:19 NIV) .By his account of God’s intervention in his life, he is at a turning point at which he may not have to worry but instead merry for many years.
Unfortunately, he failed to make a good turn at that turning point and that same night, God demanded his life from him. About him and the fortune he had, God said, “You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself? “This is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God.”’ (Luke 12:20-21 NIV)
What this “fool” failed to do was to turn to God at God’s turning point in his life, a fortune different from one amongst the ten lepers who also encountered a turning point and turned to glorify God for His intervention in his life and situation.
Beloved, the point and notice is simple, God’s turning point must turn us to God – the Bible says; “And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God” (Luke 17:15 KJV). Let us return and thank God for all good and great returns in our life about which we celebrate – Turning Point. Thank you Lord!