[Monday, July 31, 2006 . Are You Jesus??]

Are You Jesus??


i've heard this story somewhere, n i've been dying to find it... praise God i finally did!! hallelujah!!

just wanna share wif u guys this very touching n heartwarming story...

n may all of us be as the man in the story... be a Jesus to everyone out there who needs Jesus, amen??


Are You Jesus?

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.

Well, as such things go, one thing led to another. The sales manager
went longer than anticipated and the meeting ran overtime. Their flights
were scheduled to leave out of Chicago's O'Hare Airport, and they had to
race to the airport.

With tickets in hand, they barged through the terminal to catch their
flight back home. In their rush, with tickets and brief-cases, 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 friends to go on without him, waved goodbye, 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. Upon arriving he certainly was glad he had.

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 into the baskets, and helped set up the display 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
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.

We 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.


...

*tears

shalom


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