Doing, For Jesus

Good Morning!! There are many of Jesus’ instructions that we do not fully consider, or comprehend,...even after all this time,...as shown by our actions, one could question what we truly believed. He exhorts us “take no thought for tomorrow”,...and yet we worry ourselves to death. He promises “my yoke is easy”,...and yet we prefer to labor under our own. He says, “If you love me, keep my commandments”,...and yet we strive to separate the two. He warns “you cannot serve God and money”,...and yet we always try to join the two. But perhaps the revelation which is most widely ignored is this: if you do anything for the least of Jesus’ brethren,...it is as if you have done it to Jesus. As for myself, I can only say "OUCH!".

“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’—Matthew 25:40 (NIV)

Have you visited smelly nursing homes; evangelized to a stranger; reached out to broken addicts; taught your children the Bible,...all as if you were doing it to Jesus? So often we hurry by the hurting faces of Jesus’ brothers and sisters, because we consider them beneath us or beyond our reach. And yet King Jesus says, “you have done it to me.” I bet you didn't wake up this morning with the realization, that today you could do something to minister directly to Jesus. Let the revelation sink in,...and start living like you take Jesus’ statement seriously.

Let's not continue to pick and choose, which instruction we'll follow.

Holy Spirit,  allow us to help the hurting, teach the Bible, give to the needy, encourage the downcast, and do our jobs, just the way we would, if Jesus was the One we were encountering today,...because He is. Amen.

"Today, you have the chance to be someone's miracle,...take it."