ARE YOU JESUS…? read and share A few years ago, a group of regional salesmen went to a region sales convention in Chicago. They had assured their wives that they would be home in plenty of time for Friday nights dinner. In their rush with tickets and briefcases, one of these salesmen inadvertently kicked over a table which held a display of apples. Apples flew everywhere. Without stopping or looking back, they all manage to reach the plane in time for their nearly missed boarding. ALL BUT ONE!!! He paused, took a deep breath got in touch with his feelings and experienced a twinge of compassion for the girl whose apple stand had been overturned. He told his buddies to go on without him. Waved good bye, told one of them to call his wife when they arrived at their home destination and explain his taking a later flight. Then he returned to the terminal where the apples were all over the floor. He was glad he did. The 16yrs old girl was totally blind! She was softly crying, tears running down her cheeks in frustration and at the same time helplessly groping for her spilled produce as d crowd swirled about her; no one stopping and no one to care for her plight. The salesmen knelt on the floor with her, gathered up the apples, put them back on the table and helped organize her display as he did this, he noticed that many of them had become battered ane bruised; these he set aside in another basket. When he finished, he pulled out his wallet and said to the girl here, please take this $40 for the damage we did. Are you okay she nodded through her tears... He continued on with I hope we didn’t spoil your day too badly” As the salesman started to walk away, the bewildered blind girl called out to him. ’Mister….’ He paused and turned to look at those blind eyes. She continued ‘Are you Jesus?’ He stopped in the mid stride and wondered. Then slowly he made his way to catch the later flight with that question burning and bouncing about in his soul: Are you Jesus? Do people mistake you for Jesus? That is our destiny, is it not? To be so much like Jesus that people cannot tell the difference as we interact with a world that is blind to HIS LOVE, LIFE AND GRACE. If we claim to know him, we should live , walk and act as he would. Knowing Him is more than simply quoting scriptures, going to church etc. its actually living the word as life unfolds day to day. You are the apple of His eyes even though we too have been bruised by a fall, He stopped what He was doing in heaven and come to pick you and me on a hill called Calvary and paid in full for the damaged fruits… this is what we celebrate…. MERRY XMASS
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