"Are
you Jesus?"
from the
Original World Changers International Website
http://wci888.com/JesusSeriesDetails.php?blogID=1775
A few years ago a group
of salesmen went to a regional convention in Chicago.
They had assured their wives that they would be home in
plenty of time for Friday night's dinner. In their rush,
with tickets and briefcases in hand, one of these
salesmen inadvertently kicked over a table which held a
display of baskets of apples. Apples flew everywhere.
Without stopping or
looking back, they 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.
He told his buddies to
go on without him, waved goodbye, and 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 that he did. The 16
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 stopped and no one
seemed to care about her plight.
The salesman knelt on
the floor with her, gathered up the apples, put them
into baskets, and helped set the display up once more.
As he did this, he noticed that many of them had become
battered and bruised; 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 $20 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 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 wondered. Then slowly he made his way to
catch the later flight with the 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
live and 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 Scripture and going to church. It is
actually living the Word as life unfolds day to day.
You are "the apple of
His eye" even though we, too, have been bruised by a
fall. He stopped what He was doing and picked you and me
up on a hill called Calvary and paid in full for our
damaged fruit. Let's start living like we are worth the
price He paid.