Have you ever noticed how in the Gospels Jesus seeks out social outcasts and religious losers? Zacchaeus is despised by his neighbors because he has “cozied” up with the Roman occupiers and was extracting excessive taxes from his own people. He was not a popular man in town. But Zacchaeus wasn’t beyond being saved…beneath all his greed, beneath all his sinfulness…Zacchaeus was open to the presence of God when it walked by! While the Pharisees and town’s people had “written him off”…God had not! God came to his house!
Think about that for just a minute…God sought out this sinner and offered him a new life…and he took it! It is so easy to write people off…because of what they do or have done…the country they come from….how they look…the color of their skin…or who they love. There are all kinds of reasons we “write people off”…but God doesn’t! Who have I “written off”…why? Who are the people that I disdain or distance myself from…why? When was the last time I climbed a tree to get a better look at God passing by?
Blessings,
Fr Tim
Think about that for just a minute…God sought out this sinner and offered him a new life…and he took it! It is so easy to write people off…because of what they do or have done…the country they come from….how they look…the color of their skin…or who they love. There are all kinds of reasons we “write people off”…but God doesn’t! Who have I “written off”…why? Who are the people that I disdain or distance myself from…why? When was the last time I climbed a tree to get a better look at God passing by?
Blessings,
Fr Tim
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