Well, I work in a Christian Bookstore and you probably think we have the nicest people coming in all the time but believe me there are a lot of people we wonder about. If people act the way they do in my store, God Bless the people they encounter in a non-Christian atmosphere that don't know they are a Christian. One of my thoughts after some people leave is what exactly are their preachers preaching about on Sunday because it obviously isn't Christian Living. My apologies to some pastors who may be preaching it but their members obviously arn't listening. Here is an email I received, I don't know who wrote it but I wish I could pass it out to everyone that enters my store.
Are you Jesus?
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 AND GOD BLESS.
How many of us are the salesmen that continued on their way and never stopped? How many people do we leave with the impression that we know Jesus? Think about it.
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