Are You To Busy?
As you read this think about what you would do!
A few years ago a group of salesmen went to a regional
sales 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, 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 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
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.
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
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; 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, "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 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.
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's 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.
Please share this....Sometimes we just take things for
granted, when we really need to be sharing what we
know...Thanks GOD BLESS EXCUSE ME, ARE YOU JESUS?
"The happiest people don't have the best of everything.
They just make the best of everything."
Live simply.
Love generously.
Care deeply.
Speak kindly.
Leave the rest to God.
-Sylvia
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