Are you Jesus?
A few years ago a group of salesmen went to a regional sales convention in London . They had assured their wives that they would be home in plenty of time for Friday night's dinner.In their
Apples flew everywhere. Without stopping or looking back, they almost all managed 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 and stopped .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 terminal floor. He was glad he did.then he realized the l5-year-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 the crowd swirled about her, no one stopping and no one to care for her plight.
The salesman 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 and bruised and damaged these he set aside in another basket.
When he had 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, "l 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 back into those blind eyes. She continued,
"Are you Jesus?"
He stopped in mid-stride, and he 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's our destiny, Is it not? To be so much like Jesus that people cannot tell the difference as we live and interact with a world that is blind to His love, life and grace.
lf we claim to know Him, we should live, walk and act as He would.
Knowing Him is more than simply quoting Scripture and going to church. lt's actually living the Word as life unfolds day to day.To be a Christian is to reflect Christ, 2 Corinthians 3:18 “ being transformed in to His image with ever increasing glory”
John 3:16 ,You are the apple of His eye even though we too have been bruised by a fall ,hurt ,damaged and broken inside out .He stopped what He was doing and picked you and me up on The hill called Calvary and paid in full for our damaged life so we can have eternal life.
Ephesians 5:2 “ Walk in love ,as Christ loved us and gave himself for us ,a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God”.
