EXCUSE ME 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 wivesthat they would be home in plenty of time for Friday night's dinner. In their rush, with tickets and briefcases, one of these salesmeninadvertently kicked over a table which held a display of apples. Apples fleweverywhere. Without stopping or looking back, they all managed to reachthe 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 oneof them to call his wife when they arrived at their home destination andexplain his taking a later flight. Then he returned to the terminal wherethe 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 didthis, 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?" Shenodded through her tears. He continued on with, "I hope we didn't spoilyour 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 aboutin 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 actas He would. Knowing Him is more than simply quoting Scripture andgoing 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 bruisedby 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. How about sharing this? ,,,,Sometimes we just take things for granted, when we really need to be sharing what we know... GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY