HE left all and gathered you and me in Calvary!!!!

Good morning and happy Wednesday, boy it is hard to believe it is already mid week, this year is zoom, zoom, zooming right on by! I pray your morning has gotten off to a good start and that the entire day is filled with only good things for you and yours!

In prayer this morning as I laid my head back and sat in my quiet place. I sat and thanked him for the gift of another day, for the beauty of blue skies and for the friendship of you. I asked him to bless each of you this day with your needs being met, I prayed that he might answer a prayer with special favor for you and that he would allow you to feel his love. I had a beautiful prayer request last night that I would like to share with you and ask that you pray it with me...

"Would you please add my cousin's friend who is in high school. He is searching for God and has a agreed to participate in a prayer challenge. I just want to pray that God touches his heart and that he is led to Christ."

I so appreciate prayer request such as this, it opens my eyes each and every time to the fact that there are "seekers" there are young people who are crying out for knowledge and who are trying so hard to find their spiritual way. Father God bless this young man today, as he participates in this prayer quest, bless him with the answers he is seeking and touch his heart so that he knows you really are there, allow him to feel the sheer love you have for him and forever change his life. One of my favorite prayers is for truth, when I am unsure about something I always ask God to reveal truth for me and never has he neglected to allow me to see what it is I am searching for. Father I ask that you provide each of us with truth of your love this day, with peace in our hearts, with calm in our minds and with comfort in our bodies. I ask these things humbly in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. Amen.  

In searching for a story this morning I came across this one and love it, I have read it before and have used it many times in giving examples of being Christ-like. I pray that today you are afforded an opportunity to make a difference. God bless you and yours with his unconditional love. Stop and pick up the apples, you never know who's heart you will be touching. 

Are you Jesus?

A group of salesmen went to a sales convention. All had promised their wives they would arrive at time for dinner Friday night. However, the convention ended a little late, and they came tardy to the airport. They all came in with their tickets and portfolios, running through the ails. Suddenly, and unintentionally, one of the salesmen stumbled on a table that had an apple basket. 

The apples went flying everywhere. Without stopping, nor turning back, the salesmen continued running, and barely were able to get on the plane. All but one. This one stopped, took a deep breath, and experienced a feeling of compassion for the owner of the apple booth. He said to his friends that continue without him and asked one of them that when he arrived call his wife and explain to her that he was coming in a later flight. Then he returned to the terminal and found all the apples thrown on the floor. 

His surprise was great, when realizing that the owner of the booth was a blind girl. He found her crying, with big tears running down her cheeks. She groped on the floor, trying, in vain, to collect the apples, while the multitude passed by, vertiginous, non stopping, without caring for her misfortune. The man knelt down with her, he gathered the apples, put them in the basket and helped her to setup her booth again. While he did it, he realized that many apples had been beaten and they were bruised. He took them out of the basket and put them in another basket. 

When he finished, he pulled out his purse and told the girl,"Please, take these one hundred pesos for the damaged we did to you. Are you OK?". She, crying, nodded positively. He continued telling her: "I hope I have not ruined your day." As the salesman was going away, the girl cried loud at him, "Sir..." He stopped and turned around to see those blind eyes. She continued: "Are you Jesus...?" 

He stopped abruptly and swirled several times, before heading to board another flight, with that question burning and vibrating in his soul, "Are you Jesus?" 

And to you, have people mistaken you for Jesus? Because that is our destiny, isn't it? To resemble ourselves so much to Jesus that people cannot see the difference. To look so much like Jesus, as we live in a world that is blind to His Love, His Life and His Grace. If we say we know Jesus, we should live and act as he would. To know him is much more than to cite the Gospels and to go to church. It is, really, to live His word each day. You are the apple of His eyes, even though you have been bruised by the falls. He left all and gathered you and me in Calvary; He paid for our spoilt fruit. Let's start to live as though we were worthy of the price He paid!