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JoeA
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 Excuse me, are you Jesus?

got this in an email. thought it was very on point.

EXCUSE ME, ARE YOU JESUS?

[b]As you read this think about what you would do![/b]

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
through the terminal, 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 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 today.
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.


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Joe Auvil

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